Executive Order 9056 Research Paper

“Above all, we must stand shoulder to shoulder, not asking as to the ancestry or creed of our comrades [immigrants], but only demanding that they be in very truth Americans, and that we all work together, heart, hand, and head, for the honor and the greatness of our common country (6).”

In February 1942, President Roosevelt signed the United States Executive Order 9066, requiring all Japanese Americans to submit themselves to an internment camp. The camps functioned as prisons, some families living in one room cells. The camps were guarded by American military personnel, and others were surrounded by barbed wire. Meals were served in mess halls, bells signalling meal time. The portions were small, starchy and dull. and milk was only supplied to children under five. The camps did have school and medical care, and the internees were payed small amounts by the government to do long hours of work. Though some internees did die from inadequate medical care or high levels of emotional stress. Japanese were only allowed to bring a few things from home such as children’s toys, pictures, and books.

“Though the camps were not surrounded with barbed wire fences, as they were in the United States, conditions were overcrowded and poor, with no electricity or running water” (James H. Marsh Japanese Internment: Banished beyond tears).

“The archaic constitutional requirement that the president must be a natural-born citizen should be replaced with a condition that a candidate should be a U.S. citizen for at least twenty years before election to the presidency (or vice presidency)” (page 104). It is unfair that there can be “thirty thousand foreign-born Americans serving in the armed forces of the United States, many risking life and limb in trouble spots around the world” and “more than seven hundred foreign-born Americans have won the Medal of Honor for their valor” but they can never be considered for presidency (page 105). I would think that these brave people would be more worthy of presidency than the millions of native countrymen who have never put their life at risk for the sake of our country. All Americans should have the opportunity to serve as president. TRANSITION SENTENCE

In March of 1942, the exclusion and imprisonment of Japanese American began. There was an authority that started to administer the camps. These authorities were known and the "War Relocation Authority," (History.com) or the WRA. In the beginning, military-like prisoners were sent to the detention centers on busses or trains. There were 13 detention centers, twelve in California and one in Oregon. These centers were organized on farms, racetracks, or fairgrounds. Some even lived in the dirty stalls of livestock. These stalls lacked

Over 110,000 Japanese Americans up and down the Pacific coast received numbers and involuntarily relocated to ill-equipped, over-crowded assembly centers at stockyards, fairgrounds, and racetracks, eventually reassigned to one of ten internment camps in remote areas of Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, Idaho, Arkansas, Utah or California. Surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by armed soldiers, families lived in poorly built and overcrowded barracks with no running water and very little heat. Forcing Japanese Americans into camps deprived them of their liberty, a basic constitutional

Less than minimum wage was their only option, as the Japanese Americans lived in constant fear and never knowing if they would live to see the next day. Each camp over time, began to follow its own routine or schedule, such as, children going to school everyday and adults having jobs, even if the Japanese Americans were only paid $5 (“Japanese- American Internment”). The daily life from afar was not changed much but, up close the day-to-day structure changed tremendously. The traditional structure of the Japanese family was diminished by the informal structure of the camps, families were split apart and the respect for elders slowly disappeared (“Japanese - Behind”). Almost an everyday life of those in the camps completely changed, whether

In February of 1942, during World War II, President Roosevelt yielded to the favored judgment of the people. Roosevelt would sign the executive order to relocate all Americans of Japanese ancestry to concentration camps, which would be persistent for two and a half years. The government’s point of view and Mrs. Yoshiko Uchida’s point of view concerning the Japanese American internment camps are immensely dissimilar. Uchida was a Japanese American writer who experienced that of an internment camp during World War II. The government had expected the interns to make the camps rather self-sustainable with no help from them whatsoever.

In the “Japanese American Removal” This article talks about the injustices that the Japanese had to face. The article states “Registering all Japanese as the first step toward forced removal.” I would not like to be forced out of my home and have to say goodbye to all of my friends. On internee says “We were fed things we weren't accustomed to. Beef brains, tongue, kidneys and liver were the mainstays of the kitchen.” The government seemed to forget that they were mostly American citizens and this kind of food was not widely enjoyed, and despised by most children. The article says “-Japanese Americans headed for the camps had no room for toys, precious heirlooms, or personal treasures. Family pets were left behind with memories of the old neighborhood.” They were forced to leave everything they loved, and that was not

In order to extend power and responsibilities of the US Inelegance, on December 4, 1981, President Ronald Regan signed Executive Order 12333. The order empowered CIA and obliged other US federal agencies to fully cooperate with the CIA requests for information. The order is known as the United States Intelligence Activities.

On April 5, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive order 6102, to “prohibit the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates.” (Roosevelt, 1933) It required citizens to deliver gold to a Federal Reserve Bank in exchange for cash. Executive Order 6102 was unconstitutional because due process of law was not granted and citizens did not receive just compensation, but it was necessary to save the economy.

Although Proclamation 455/2005 envisages that valuations will eventually be carried out by certified private or public institutions or individuals, it also states that until such time as institutions of private or public nature, as well as individuals with the required capacity/ability become available, the valuations will have to be made by committees to be established under Article 10 of the proclamation or by owners of utility lines as provided under Article 6 of the same

It all started when Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Executive Order of #9066 on February 16, 1942, this which gave power to the U.S. Secretary of War to designate

before the end of World War II and afterwards. The public opinion of the Pacific War was a supportive one and not just because of past occurrences such as the “surprise” attack on Pearl Harbor, but the hatred towards the Japanese grew further in the United States when the government publicly released the mistreatment acts against Americans that the Japanese had been carrying out. Walker accurately describes the position of the U.S public’s opinion throughout the book and the changes in attitudes that took place depending on Soviet influence and the fear of Americas only choice to invade, or at least that was the presumed alternative at the time. Indeed, government officials such as Marshall were concerned with public opinion and concerned that after World War II the public support for the war would diminish and the impatience to bring back American soldiers would grow. This added immense pressure to reach a decision of what to do about the war with Japan and

These internment camps have been described in various ways in many textbooks. Masato Ogawa states in his article, The Treatment of Japanese-American Internment During World War II in United States History Textbooks, an example of how the camps have been described, “All the camps were located in desolate areas…Barbed wire surrounded the camps, and armed guards patrolled the grounds. Although the government referred to these as relocation camps, one journalist pointed out that they seemed “uncomfortably close to concentration camps.”.” (Ogawa 41) However, the order didn’t affect Japanese Americans residing in Hawaii, “The text states that the Japanese Americans living in Hawaii weren't interned. It was true … however some were imprisoned on an individual basis and held in prison camps on the islands or transferred to mass detention or smaller internment camps on the mainland.” Which was because over 37% of the Hawaiian population was of Japanese descent and it would damage their economy. (Ogawa