LA’s Historic Cultural Monument #1039
Photo Credit: Stephen Schafer
During World War II, the U.S. government incarcerated without due process more than 2,000 Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants, Japanese taken from Peru, and others at the Tuna Canyon Detention Station located within the City of Los Angeles. These arrests were authorized under Presidential Proclamations 2525, 2526, and 2527 which were based on the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as recodified in 1918. Tuna Canyon was operated by the Immigration and Naturalization Service and held prisoners from December 16, 1941 until October 30, 1943.
Today, the barbed wire fence, guard posts, and barracks are gone. Only the oaks remain. This website reveals what they witnessed over 80 years ago.
The main purpose of the Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition is to illuminate this tragic event so that such injustice is never again experienced by any group.
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At the beginning of World War II, Presidential Proclamations 2525, 2526, and 2527 allowed U.S. government agencies to arrest and imprison so-called ”enemy aliens,” Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants from across the U.S. and others. One of the many confinement sites was the Tuna Canyon......
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The Tuna Canyon traveling exhibit will be on the display in the gym at the San Fernando Valley Obon Festival on June 28-29 from 4-7 pm....
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San Fernando Valley Japanese American Community Center 12953 Branford Street Pacoima, CA 91331 April 19, 202512-3:00 No chargeDonations Welcome Reservations are a must for a head countRemembertunacanyon@gmail.com...
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As survivors and descendants, as well as supporters and friends, of those whose fundamental constitutional and human rights were violated during World War II due to the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, we are opposed to the administration’s invocation of this outdated and discriminatory wartime law.......
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