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Maryland Elementary School Lesson Compares Southern Border To Japanese Imprisonment During WWII

Chrissy Clark
Maryland Elementary School Lesson Compares Southern Border To Japanese Imprisonment During WWII
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A Maryland public elementary school taught children as young as six years old that the current detention facilities at the U.S. southern border are comparable to Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. 

On May 14, Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ North Glen Elementary included a lecture in its morning announcements that condemned the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII. The lecture compared Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s internment of Japanese-Americans to the current facilities at the southern border. 

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