This is an interesting part of US History. The internment of the Japanese in WWII has its own discussions, and if you believe that they were a threat to the US, at the very least, they were here. In this case, we went all over Latin America to find these people and bring them to the US to intern!
When people think of WWII internment camps they think of the Japanese Americans detained after Pearl Harbor. Over 100,000 people of Japanese descent were detained after that attack, the majority of them U.S. citizens. The Camp Algiers story is part of a much smaller government internment program, often overlooked, but now the subject of research by Miller.
“All these buildings would have been part of a facility that was used in the 1940s,” she says, looking at the facility from the facing levee, “to house enemy aliens who arrived to New Orleans from Latin America.” Read more here
Here’s a link to modern pictures..