At the age of 93, Hiroshi Kashiwagi fears the country hasn’t changed much since he was interned at Tule Lake during World War II, and he empathizes with Muslim Americans who are enduring hate that Japanese Americans like him once endured.

“No one really saw us off,” said Kashiwagi, referring to when he was shipped out to an internment camp — which he referred to as “a prison” — more than seven decades ago. “They were glad to see us go.”

On Tuesday, Kashiwagi, a poet, joined a consortium of Asian American and Muslim American organizations to denounce a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment sweeping the country, fueled, in part, by proposals by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to ban Muslim immigration and enact surveillance of some mosques....

“Fortunately, now we have other organizations that are able to speak up, whereas in 1942 there really wasn’t anyone,” she said. “But now that’s all changed, and we should all work together so that we can change the hearts and minds and stop this racial profiling and this racial discrimination in this country.”