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36 YEARS YOUR VOICE
The Seattle Times has Large shoes to fill By Nina Huang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
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After nearly 37 years working at The Seattle Times, the city’s “voice of reason,” Jerry Large, has retired. Friends and family celebrated his illustrious journalism career on Friday, Apr. 6, at the Northwest African American Museum. Born in Clovis, N.M. in 1954, Large and his two brothers were raised by a single mother. Growing up poor with a small number of Black and Asian folks in a largely Native American and Mexican community, Large observed those groups as occupying different niches, and he wondered why different racial groups occupied different spaces. He wanted to write about those topics to help others understand why that happens and why it’s possible for everyone to have better outcomes in their lives. Large has a B.A. in Journalism from New Mexico State University. Prior to The Times, he worked for the Clovis News-Journal, the see LARGE on 16 MOVIES REVIEW » see 7
THE ART OF SURVIVAL » see 8
THE GREAT LEAP » see 9
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Daniel Akaka, first Native Hawaiian in Congress, dies at 93
Senator Daniel Akaka (right) meets with Filipino World War II veterans (from left) Guillermo Rumingan, Celestino Almeda, and Joaquin Tejada after a Senate hearing in 1998.
By CALEB JONES ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU (AP) — Former Sen. Daniel Kahikina Akaka, the first Native Hawaiian elect-
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ed to Congress who served for more than three decades, died on April 6. He was 93. Akaka died in Honolulu after see AKAKA on 15
Children of Korematsu, Hirabayashi, Yasui file Supreme Court brief challenging Trump travel ban Photo provided by DiscoverNikkei.org
VOL 37 NO 16 APRIL 14 – APRIL 20, 2018
Karen Korematsu (left), Holly Yasui, and Jay Hirabayashi, children of Fred Korematsu, Minoru Yasui and Gordon Hirabayashi. | Photo taken by Tracy Kumono Photography
By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY SEATTLE — Seattle University School of Law’s Korematsu Center for Law and Equality joined an amicus curiae group in filing a U.S. Supreme Court brief on April 5, supporting the challengers in the ongoing Muslim travel ban litigation. The amici include the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality (Korematsu Center), the children of those who challenged orders that led to the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, civil rights organizations, and national bar associations of color.
Oral arguments will take place on April 25. The “Presidential Proclamation” at issue is the third iteration of the Trump administration’s travel ban. Opponents say it violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, as well as the Immigration and Nationality Act. The amicus group wants the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Presidential Proclamation for violation of the Constitution. In three wartime cases — Hirabayashi, Yasui, and Korematsu — the Supreme Court chose to defer to the president and the military in times of war, rather than on individual determinations of see TRAVEL BAN on 12
43 Cambodians convicted of felonies depor ted By SOPHENG CHEANG ASSOCIATED PRESS PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Forty-three Cambodians arrived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital, on April 5, after being deported from the United States under a law allowing the repatriation of immigrants who have committed felony crimes and have not become U.S. citizens. The group is the largest to be sent to Cambodia under a 2002 bilateral agreement. More than 500 other Cambodians have already been repatriated. The program is controversial because it breaks up families, and in some cases the returnees have never lived in Cambodia, having been the children of refugees who fled to camps in Thailand to escape the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime that ruled Cambodia in 1975-79. Critics of the deportation policy say many of those convicted fell into crime as a result of social dislocation. The returnees are seen as having
difficulty reintegrating into Cambodian society because many have spent most of their lives in the United States. Two Cambodians exconvicts on March 30 received pardons from California Gov. Jerry Brown, at least temporarily removing the risk they might Prime Minister Hun Sen be deported. Gen. Dim Ra, a senior immigration police officer overseeing the returnees, said the group that arrived included three women. He said any returnees who still have family members in Cambodia will live with their relatives, and those who do not will receive vocational training by a private group funded by the U.S. government see DEPORTATION on 5
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