Roosevelt's Argumentative Essay: The Relocation Of Japanese Americans

Blake Mansfield
10/16/15
U.S History
Dr. King-Owen
Japanese American relocation
In 1942, President Roosevelt signed an executive order for the interment of hundreds of thousand of Japanese Americans. They were shipped off to internment camps in which their families remained there until the Japanese surrender.
The internment of Japanese Americans was a forced relocation of between 110,000 and 120,000 Japanese Americans who lived on the Pacific coast to interment camps across the country. The crime of these American citizens was being of Japanese descent. Without any evidence or trial hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans were suspected of being loyal to their native land. Anti-Japanese paranoia was rising because of the amount of

After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor there were rumor being spread that that were provoked by racial predjuce that the Japanese Americans were going to sabotage war efforts in the U.S. Roosevelt was under a lot of pressure to sign the executive order and eventually he did.
The entire reason the Japanese Americans were "relocated" is because Roosevelt's executive order was fueled by anti-Japanese farmers that wanted to get rid of the Japanese competition, racist politicians, and the public because of the heighted fear of the Japanese because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The worst part was that over sixty-six percent of the Japanese that were relocated were citizens of the United States.
There were two legal cases brought against the U.S government and there relocation of the Japanese Americans. The first case was ruled in 1943 and it was "Hirabayashi vs. The United States." The second case was ruled in 1944 and was "Korematsu vs. the United States. Both cases were sided with the Untied States government. These men agued that the Japanese American Relocation was a direct violation of the Fifth Amendment and were just being prosecuted because of their racial