the train to crystal city by jan jarboe russell

It was a former migrant worker camp and it had 10-foot high barbed wire fences. “Thousands of Japanese and German fathers with their wives and mostly American-born children were traded into these countries for more important Americans who were trapped behind enemy lines, and that would have been prisoners of war, missionaries, businessmen who needed a way out.” There were about 6,000 people that we know of that were in the camp between 19, which was three long years after the war was over. There were six different prisoner exchanges from Crystal City. “During the war, Crystal City became the center of Roosevelt’s prisoner exchange program. “It existed in order to reunite enemy alien fathers with their children, so the head of the Immigration Naturalization Service was looking for a place that was far away from the West and East coast, a place that he could have a secret camp, and that place turned out to be Crystal City.” On how Crystal City changed in World War II: It’s the subject of a new book, “The Train To Crystal City” by Jan Jarboe Russell, named one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times.

One of those camps was located in Crystal City, Texas, a place where those interned would be exchanged for more “important” Americans caught behind enemy lines. Seventy years ago, the notion materialized in the form of internment camps, which held Japanese, German, and Italian citizens during World War II.

has targeted foreign nationals in the wake of terror or war.

“No more Muslims,” said Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump in a call to clamp down on immigration for the sake of security.

The train to crystal city by jan jarboe russell