Argumentative Essay On Japanese American Internment

Is forcing innocent people to internment camp okay just because of their ancestry? No. Over 120,000 United States citizens were forced to internment camps just for having Japanese heritage. Japanese-American internment was cruel, racist and extremely unnecessary. Americans had no right or reason to forcefully take them from their homes and into imprisonment. The reasons for this are that they were American citizens, there was not a single case of Japanese disloyalty during the war, and that it was just anti-Japanese paranoia.
It is important to realize that these Japanese-Americans were and still are American citizens. In the article “Japanese-American Internment”, it says “Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during WWII. Their crime? Being of Japanese ancestry.” This textual evidence supports the fact that they were US citizens, and were only imprisoned

In the article “Japanese-American Internment was an Unnecessary and a Racist Act”, it clearly states, “Another historian, Henry Steele Commager, comments, ‘It is sobering to recall that the record does not disclose a single case of Japanese disloyalty…’” This comment from the historian proves the point that the Japanese-Americans didn’t even pose a threat to the United States. Like the quote said, there was not even a single case of betrayal from these poor innocent people.
An opponent to this would say that the Japanese on land and at sea were for sure communicating. They would probably also say that ALL of them were a threat. In the article, “Japanese-American Internment was an Unnecessary and a Racist Act”, it says “War correspondent Walter Lippmann offered more concrete reasons. ‘It is the fact that communication takes place between the enemy at sea and the enemy on land.’ Another historian says, “ ‘Suddenly the Japanese threatened our very national existence’” This was untrue,