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During the war. Operated from 19421948 the camp was the center of a program called quite passage in which hundreds of detainees were exchanged against their will for american diplomats and soldiers and others held behind enemy line. Cspan Jan Jarboe Russell, author of the train to crystal city, who is sumi . Cspan sumi is the japaneseamerican main character of my book, who was born in los angeles, and her father was a photographer, the most successful japanese photographer in los angeles. And he was arrested as an enemy alien because he was a photographer. During world war ii, as you know, photography was like the internet. Anybody that had access to it could take photos of military bases and things like that. So the 32,000 enemy alien fathers who were arrested were largely arrested not based on anything they had done as human beings, but on their occupations, which could have been harmful, according to the government, to our ....