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Japanese-Americans have dealt with stereotypes, laws targeted towards them, and denied the right to have the American dream. Considering the tragedy of Pearl Harbor, we cannot target Americans for a tragedy they were not involved in and place them into interment camps. The Japanese did attack Pearl Harbor but Japanese-Americans pledge their loyalty to America, have been racially discriminated, and denied their constitutional rights. The United States should not place people of the Japanese ancestry into internment camps.
On December 7, 1941 Japanese did attack the naval base Pearl Harbor. Some might say that Japanese-Americans were spies for Japan and would pledge their loyalty to Japan. However, majority of Japanese-Americans pledged their loyalty to America, because of the opportunities america gave them (Grapes 12). Yoshiko Uchida, a Japanese-American, her father was very grateful for America and its opportunities which she explained
“My father cherished copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution of the United States, and on national holidays he hung with great pride an enormous American flag on our front porch, even though at the time, this country declared the the first generation Japanese immigrants to be ‘aliens ineligible for citizenship’ (Grapes 14).”
This quote describing her father, shows how much the Japanese-Americans were proud to be living in America even if they could not be considered citizens since they were not born in America, they treated America as if it was their homeland. The amount of gratitude they had to live in America was extremely high and they wanted to show their appreciation. Yoshiko’s father cherishing the copies of the Constitution an...

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...o internment camps, considering what they have already done to them. Denying three of their constitutional rights, considering a majority of the country is citizens, it would be wrong to put them into these interment camps denying them of even more of their rights.
The United States should not place people of the Japanese ancestry into internment camps. There is logical reasoning behind not placing these men, women, and children into an internment camps, while there rights have already been violated from documents that founded our country, pledge their loyalty to America, and have been discriminated against by their neighbors and the government. The Japanese-Americans have suffered enough and should not have to be further punished for a crime they did not commit. Placing these citizens in internment camps would be a mistake on behalf of the U.S. government.