Fred Korematsu

On December 8, 1941, the United States declared war on Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor which set off a series of chain reactions. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was concerned about Japanese spies hiding in the United states and his solution was to establish Executive Order 9066 which authorized military commanders to define “military areas” and to exclude anyone from those areas. Korematsu v. the United States was a result of Executive Order 9066 which relocated over 120,000 persons of Japanese descent. Fred Korematsu refused to be relocated and suffered consequences. About 62 years later, the case of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld arises and with it follows the question; has the government learned from their mistakes. Considering that Yaser Hamdi was captured and detained without proper rulings until 2 years after, the public would say that the government has forgotten their mistakes of mass incarceration and neglects the consequences of their actions. The government has forgotten the effects of Korematsu v. United states and has not learned the lesson of what became of the Executive Order 9066 and its effect on Japanese Americans as well as history.

Korematsu v. the United States was a monumental case involving Fred Korematsu, A Japanese American, and the federal

A week after, Congress passed a law allowing the president to use "all necessary and appropriate for us… Against persons associated with the attack”. This may sound familiar to the executive order 9066 during 1944. The President ordered the Armed Forces to Afghanistan to subdue al Qaeda and quell the supporting Taliban regime. This made every fear certain races and certain people. Muslims were targeted and feared for being a terrorist just like how the Japanese were feared to be spying on the United States but they were also in fear. Just like the Japanese Americans in 1944, people like Yaser Hamdi are being persecuted for being a certain