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They were sent to ten internment camps in the U.S. Eighty-night-year-old Japanese American Yuki Hiyama was one of them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Japanese American Interned During WWII\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/212096045?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Yuki Hiyama, 89-year-old Japanese American, enjoys cooking in her kitchen. (Wen-Yee Lee\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Wen-Yee Lee President Donald Trump&#8217;s travel ban is not the first time the commander in chief \u00a0used an executive order to restrict a certain group of people. In 1942, during World War II, more than 120,000 of Japanese Americans were singled out from one executive order. 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