Brandon Shimoda writes in flashbacks, on page 97, of The Afterlife is Letting Go, how:
That is why the FBI was there: to criminalize anything they willfully misperceived as evidence that the Japanese immigrants and their children and grandchildren were a threat to who and what they were protecting—white people, their property. The police scattered the people’s belongings, then watched as the people scrambled to put everything back together.
Belonging necessitates putting back together
Though we belong even as broken apart: piecemeal, suddenly shattered
washing dishes: a father’s glimpses 