Alien Enemy Detention Facility, Crystal City, Texas
During WWII, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) operated three internment camps in Texas. Prisoners included people of Axis nationalities deported from Latin American countries and Axis sailors arrested in American ports after Pearl Harbor, along with Japanese Americans arrested by the FBI.
Click on the link above to play the video. It was produced and narrated by the INS, and attempts to provide an optimistic view of life at the camp at Crystal City. The other Texas camps were in Seagoville and Kenedy. Here they are on a map.
To learn more about WWI Internment Camps in Texas, including Crystal City, check out this article from the Texas State Historical Association.
Source: texasarchive.org
