It is most fitting that we pause today to honor these Americans as the 22d Biennial Convention of the Japanese American Citizens League is taking place in Washington this week. More than 100 JACL Chapters in 32 States are being represented by over 500 delegates. The first groups of immigrant laborers from Japan arrived in the United States in the 1860s. Unlike other groups of immigrants to America. however. they were denied fundamental rights such as the right to become naturalized citizens and to own land. Discriminatory laws directed specifically at them. were passed at both the Federal and State levels. Yet. their darkest hour came after Pearl Harbor.
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