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Michael Bennet: “Camp Amache is now part of the National Park Service.”

Featuring: Michael Bennet, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Colorado

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Senator Bennet and Representative Neguse Host Steamboat Springs Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 1:23:19

And yet At Camp Amache, 12,000 Japanese American citizens were incarcerated behind barbed wire, ostensibly out of the same democratic small d democratic battle that we were having and because of Joe Nagusa's leadership and work, that Camp Amache is now part of the National Park Service. And this is the reason, I think, in many ways, this is the reason, in many ways, that Donald Trump is trying to whitewash our history so that we don't … (1:23:19–1:23:27)

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