Explain Why The Internment Of The Japanese Was Unjustified

Imagine what it would be like to be told at a moment’s notice that you must pack up and be relocated from your home all because of your ethnic background? It doesn’t seem possible that it happened, but it did. And it is still happening to specific ethnic groups. During World War Two and the bombing of Pearl Harbor the United States Government, President Roosevelt and many American citizens did not trust the Japanese. They needed to be in internment camps like the one at Newell California that is shown above. The Japanese people could be monitored and watched to prevent any underground activities. My husband and I live 55 miles from an old Japanese Internment Camp, called The Tulelake Relocation Center or the Tule Lake Segregation Center.

On February 19th 1942, Roosevelt signed the executive order 9066. Under the terms of the order, people of Japanese descent were placed in internment camps. The United States’ justification for this abominable action was that the Japanese American’s may spy for their Homeland. Over 62% of the Japanese that were held in these camps were American Citizens. The United States’ internment of the Japanese was a poor and cowardly method of ‘keeping the peace.’ The United States was not justified in stowing away Japanese Americans into almost concentration camps. This act goes against the basic Bill Of Rights granted to all American citizens, the Fifth Amendment's command that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due

     For over a century, the United States has been one of the most powerful and influential states on the globe. However, every nation has made mistakes in its past. Throughout our country’s history, certain groups have had to endure horrible injustices: the enslavement of African-Americans, the removal of Native Americans, and discrimination against immigrants, women, homosexuals, and every other minority. During World War II, the government crossed the line between defending the nation and violating human rights, when it chose to relocate Japanese residents to internment camps. The actions taken by the U.S. government against Japanese Americans and Japanese living in the

Some people may argue that Japanese Internment camps were necessary because the Japanese Americans got taken away to get put in the camps. The police would take the Japanese Americans away from their families because Americans thought that Japanese Americans were spies and they knew that something existed that the Americans didn't know about. I am here to argue that is not the case because, Augusto Kage ¨remembers his father getting taken away. The important thing about this is that his dad didn’t know what was happening and his relatives were petrified and had no idea what was going on.¨ The reason that the police are taking Japanese Americans away is because in January, a month after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor the U.S didn’t trust the Japanese Americans that lived in the U.S. Americans thought Japanese

Humanity has seen great horrors throughout the course of history, one them being the Holocaust during World War II. As we look down upon the Germans of that time, the U.S. had their very own holocaust. President Roosevelt issued the Executive Order #9066 on February 19, 1942, which allowed the relocation of tens and thousands of Japanese Americans to internment camps, stripping them of their rights; the reason being that these U.S. citizens were of Japanese descent. There are other possible reasons Japanese were sent to these camps, such as being secure after the attack on Pearl Harbor; however, social and racial attitudes was most significant because Japan attacked, and there was a war going on, so what chances are there that more Japanese won’t follow, whereas the other two were formed from that discrimination and racism.

The 1940s, a time where Nisei, Japanese American born in the United States, was hard. After the bombing at Pearl Harbor, in 1941. On February 19, 1942, The president passed the executive order 9066 (Japanese Internment Timeline 6). This order was a forced law, and in this case it was forcing the Japanese Americans into concentration camps, bringing the United States into World War II (Japanese Internment Timeline 6). There was an argument on the West Coast during this time period that had opinions from each side. I believe it was not equitable for Japanese Americans to be taken out of the Pacific Coast and placed into the concentration camps, also referred to as internment, because there

Like all issues involving race or war, the question of whether or not it was legal and ethical to make Japanese Americans move to relocation camps in early WWII is a difficult and controversial problem. The internment of around 50,000 Japanese citizens and approximately 70,000 Japanese-American people born in the U.S. living in the American West Coast has become known as a tragedy and mistake. The government even set up numerous projects to apologize to the American citizens who were wronged (Bosworth). Still, at the time that the decision to relocate was made, the actions were constitutionally legal and seen by many as necessary. The actions were not based on racist feelings. It was, however,

In 1942 Japanese Americans were forced from their homes in the U.S. losing all they had to be placed in Internment Camps. Japanese Americans were suspected of remaining loyal to their ancestral land, they were now feared as a security risk. The question of rather I think the U.S. was justified for the camps or not is in between for me, but I disagree more than I agree and here are my reasons why. Racial profiling has been a problem for every race there is and it’s just as wrong for Japanese Americans. Also, I don’t agree with stripping a human-being of their entire life. Lastly, they made life after the internment camps hard for Japanese Americans.

In my humble opinion, it is plain and simple in my mind that Japanese Internment was a clear violation of the Fifth Amendment of US Constitution. Japanese Americans were unfairly denied their rights to due process even though the federal government seemed to be acting in the best interest of Americans during an active war. Although, it clear from the background reading of everything leading up to the internment and from the firsthand accounts of Japanese Americans that the was a tinge of racism to the Executive Orders which led to the exclusion and internment of Japanese Americans.

The Japanese-American Internment was a necessary choice, made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It helped to make our nation secure during times of extreme emergency and it also helped the US government to keep their enemy under watch. “The story of how Japanese American soldiers from the war’s most highly decorated US military unit came to be there is just one part of a remarkable saga. It is also a story of one of the darkest periods in American history, one filled with hardship, sacrifice, courage, injustice, and finally, redemption. It began more than a hundred years ago” (Sandler, 2013, p. 6). At the turn of the 21st century began the immigration of the Japanese to America for various reasons, but all with one thing in mind: freedom. “We talked about America; we dreamt about America. We all had one wish – to be in America” (Sandler, 2013, p. 6). The decision by these many people was a grueling and tough decision, but they knew it would benefit them in the long run. “…like their European counterparts, they were willing to risk everything to begin life anew in what was regarded as a golden land of opportunity” (Sandler, 2013, p. 6). When they came to America, they were employed and were able to begin their new lives for the first part of it.

It wasn’t very long after Pearl Harbor that we succumbed to fear of the Japanese here in America, thinking they were spies, and still loyal their ancestral land. Sadly, even our president Roosevelt succumbed to this, in which he signed executive order 9066 which authorized the relocation of all Japanese citizens here in America to internment camps where they would spend 4 years of their life, and lose their homes, valuables, lifes savings,businesses, and much more. Japanese Americans were taken by bus and train to assembly centers such as racetracks and fairgrounds, after this there were camps were created in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas. Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II because

The internment of Japanese-American people for over two years was not only unlawful, but it also created a sense of distrust and resentment in the government. The constitutionality

In 1941 the supreme court made an unjust law that made the internment of Japanese-Americans, legal and it is easily said that it was unnecessary and a racist predicament.

We all have studied about the Japanese-American Internment camps that happened during the World War II. These are considered as the black spot on the United States record as the United States has always been a diverse country, which has respected every culture and individual freedom, but in these internment camps, several thousands of Japanese residents were relocated from the pacific coast to the points in the interior of the United States based on the fear. While I was watching the video of the government explanation, I felt that the video had presented these camps in a way as if they had no disadvantages to the Japanese as all the Japanese were shown to be happy throughout the video. The government has explained these camps in a positive manner.

The internment was challenged in courts of law, but the Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of the curfew and exclusion orders in the 1943 and 1944 cases of Hirabayashi, Yasui, and Korematsu. While protesting loudly that racial prejudice should trigger the highest scrutiny, the Court nevertheless deferred to the government's vague claims of military necessity. Was the internment in fact justified as a matter of military necessity? A Congressionally appointed blue ribbon commission concluded in 1982 that the "broad historical causes which shaped these decisions were race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership," not any genuine military necessity. In other words, it was a tragic wartime mistake. For that, all branches of the U.S. government have apologized.