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Kristen Taketa

Kristen Taketa is an education reporter at The San Diego Union-Tribune who covers school districts, charter schools and early childhood education across San Diego County. Her last job was covering education for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in Missouri. Before that, she worked stints at The Dallas Morning News and The Orange County Register. She first started working in journalism at The Daily Bruin at UCLA.

Flowers and origami figures flutter in the wind at the foot of a monument honoring the dead at the former Manzanar, California, incarceration camp where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly held during World War II. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Able to happen again’: Local Japanese American historians warn of Trump’s use of 1798 wartime law

April 18, 2025 at 12:24 p.m.

In seeking to deport Venezuelan immigrants, President Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act — the same law that was used to justify incarcerating Japanese Americans during World War II.

‘We are very scared’: Fear grips migrant families on both sides of the border over Trump deportations

November 11, 2024 at 11:09 a.m.

Many still hold out hope of gaining asylum, but they know a future in the U.S. is uncertain.

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