Source: Pacific News Service
http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=1ca4655c2e04ee672e4ffdddd3120730
On April 23, 2003 the Pacific News Service reported that "when 50 leading Asian American and Pacific Island civil rights organizations met recently in Washington, D.C., SARS was only one of many dangers they see threatening their communities. Other recent events -- an alleged Chinese American spy, the North Korean menace, and Patriot Acts I and II -- have caused many to feel they have become targets of hostility in America... Asians largely escaped the detentions and deportations that plagued many Arab and Muslim communities in America after Sept. 11, 2001. Now, Korean Americans are concerned that government scrutiny will expand to include them if the U.S. relationship with North Korea continues to deteriorate... Congressman Mike Honda (D-CA), a third-generation Japanese American, referred to a congressional study that concluded there was no military justification for the internment of Japanese. The study blamed three factors for the camps: racism, hysteria and Japanese Americans' lack of political voice. That's a lesson as relevant to Asian Americans today as it was 50 years ago, Honda said."