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How Immigration Policies Shape America: A Ketchikan Photo Essay

The recent uproar over the Trump Administration's immigration policies reminded me of a few historically-significant facts that I learned about three businesses while visiting Ketchikan, Alaska , last September (2016). Others might benefit from learning about them, too, so enjoy! 1. I learned about Tatsuda's Grocery and how the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor impacted the family in two ways.  Not only was the family sent to internment camps at the order of American government, but three sons served in the US Armed Forces at the same time the family was being interned.  Crazy? That's America and that's history, folks.  2. I also learned about the history of the Diaz Cafe ; specifically, that while immigration laws in the 1920s restricted Chinese and Japanese immigrants from coming to America, Filipinos were not blocked from immigrating. Thus, Ketchikan boomed with 'Alaskeros' who became part of the community, and still are. So, it c