Ice activity on historic Japanese site evokes painful legacy of incarceration

Descendants of Terminal Island's Japanese community see parallels between the second world war and Ice raids today

John Tonai was enraged when he learned that a human-made island in San Pedro Bay was being used as a staging ground for the workplace raids unfolding across Los Angeles.

To Tonai, Terminal Island isn't just one of the country's busiest container ports. It's the site of a small fishing village where his parents and thousands of other Japanese immigrants helped establish California's tuna-canning industry.