As one of the Supreme Court Justices, I am very disappointed about the actions that our President, commander and chief, has undertaken against the Japanese people that live in the United States. I will do my best to help to prevent and stop this bizarre activity that is happening in the United States currently. I am not sure if I will be able to change much, but I will continue to stand strong in my belief, because I verily believe that such action is very obnoxious. I am against all of the Japanese to be in the Internment camps, especially if they have been interrogated and have been found not guilty of having any connection with the Japanese government. Unfortunately the Executive Order 9066 has been signed by President FDR to relocate all of the Japanese people that live in the United States to internment camps.
My personal opinion is that I strongly disagree and believe such action is unfair and very unconstitutional. Why are the Japanese mainly targeted? As the congress and many other government man say
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Do you think that the Executive Order that President of the United States signed is fair to all ethnic groups that are living in the United States currently? Of course I understand that the Japanese group of people are a “direct threat”, but are they really a threat? Those who have lived here in this country longer than some of us here standing in this office are now in Internment camps suffering for no reason. Also they lost all of their personal owned property that they have ever owned. Can you imagine being in there shoes? We need to do something about this because this is a disaster and catastrophe! Thank you everyone for listening and being so patient with me. Days, weeks, months passed until a letter was sent to the congress asking for overlook of the Executive Order 9066 that was being completed as President FDR has ordered and commanded to
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were regarded as a threat to the U.S. President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, also know as the Exclusion Order. This Order stated that any descendents or immigrants from enemy nations who might be a threat to U.S. security will report to assembly centers for Internment. There were no trials or hearings. They were forced to evacuate and many lost their homes and their businesses. Fred Korematsu refused to go. He was a U.S. citizen. Fred Korematsu was grabbed by police, handcuffed, and taken to jail. His crime -- defying President Franklin Roosevelt's order that American citizens of Japanese descent report to internment camps
You may think that the Constitution is your security - it is nothing but a piece of paper. You may think that the statutes are your security - they are nothing but words in a book. You may think that elaborate mechanism of government is your security - it is nothing at all, unless you have sound and uncorrupted public opinion to give life to your Constitution, to give vitality to your statutes, to make efficient your government machinery. (Brown)
Economic interest also encouraged the racism against the Japanese. Tough Japanese work ethics made Japanese businesses competition for Americans. Interest groups and individuals demanded legislators take action against all Japanese. All persons of Japans ancestry, including American citizens of Japanese ancestry, called Nisei, were reported to concentration camps. In reading American Constitutional Interpretation, it states, "General DeWitt explained, it was legitimate to put the Nisei behind barbed wire
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.
During 1941 many Americans were on edge as they became increasingly more involved in WWII. On December 7, 1941 the Japanese decided to take matters to their own hands. They attacked the naval base Pearl Harbor and killed 68 Americans in order to prevent the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with their military. After this surprise attack, the Americans officially entered the war, which caused many people to become paranoid (Baughman). Many people feared the Japanese because they thought they were spies for Japan, and because of this the Executive Order 9066 was signed and issued by FDR which sent many Japanese Americans to live in internment camps (Roosevelt). This caused the Japanese to become a scapegoat of America’s fear and anger. The Issei and Nisei who once moved to this country to find new opportunities and
What were the Japanese internment camps some might ask. The camps were caused by the attack of Pearl Harbor in 1942 by Japan. President Roosevelt signed a form to send all the Japanese into internment camps.(1) All the Japanese living along the coast were moved to other states like California, Idaho, Utah, Arkansas, Colorado, Wyoming and Arizona. The camps were located away from Japan and isolated so if a spy tried to communicate, word wouldn't get out. The camps were unfair to the Japanese but the US were trying to be cautious. Many even more than 66% or 2/3 of the Japanese-Americans sent to the internment camps in April of 1942 were born in the United States and many had never been to Japan. Their only crime was that they had Japanese ancestors and they were suspected of being spies to their homeland of Japan. Japanese-American World War I veterans that served for the United States were also sent to the internment camps.(2)
One of the reason Japanese were send to camps was because president FDR issue an executive order 9066. He believed it would prevent the J...
Japanese internment camps are an important part of American history. They represented and showed much of the change that happened around World War II. Although many people may say that races other than African-Americans were not that discriminated against, that was not the case. The Japanese-American People lost their homes, livelihood, and were separated from their families. More people should know about this event so as to learn from it and let something similar never to repeat it. Japanese internment camps should be an event all new American’s learn about because of its importance in World War II, the influence racism had on the camps, and for being one of the biggest violations of civil rights in American history
There were some Japanese-Americans who were hesitant of going into internment camps. They were worried about losing their occupations, property, and freedom. The government came up with an excuse that was meant to calm the fears of the Japanese during the “greatest forced migration in American history” (The San Francisco News, 1942).
On December 7,1941 Japan raided the airbases across the islands of Pearl Harbour. The “sneak attack” targeted the United States Navy. It left 2400 army personnel dead and over a thousand Americans wounded. U.S. Navy termed it as “one of the great defining moments in history”1 President Roosevelt called it as “A Day of Infamy”. 2 As this attack shook the nation and the Japanese Americans became the immediate ‘focal point’. At that moment approximately 112,000 Persons of Japanese descent resided in coastal areas of Oregon, Washington and also in California and Arizona.3
Nevertheless, Japanese were resented and disliked by whites. Due to pressure from state leaders near the west coast, President Roosevelt, on February 19, 1942, signed Executive Order 9066. This resulted in the which resulted in the violent imprisonment of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry. When the government gave its internment order, whites rounded up, imprisoned, and exiled their Japanese neighbors. In 1942, 110,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast of the United States were relocated to ten internment camps. More than two thirds of those sent to internment camps, under the Executive Order, had never shown disloyalty and were also citizens of the United States. In April 1942, the War Relocation Authority was created to control the assembly centers, relocation centers, and internment camps, and oversee the relocation of Japanese-Americans. It took another forty years for the US government to recognize the violations of this population's constitutional rights.
America is one word that brings the hope of freedom to many people around the world. Since the United States’ humble beginnings freedom has remained at the core of its ideologies and philosophies. People of all races, nations, and tongues have found refuge in America. The National Anthem proclaims, “…land of the free, and home of the brave” (Key, 1814). But has America been consistently a land of the free? Unfortunately freedom has not always reigned. There is a constant struggle to overcome fear and prejudice in order to provide a true land of freedom. In times of heightened tension, the masses of common people seek to find a scapegoat. Often, this scapegoat is a minority with ties to current negative events. As fear uncontrollably grows, it can cause people to allow and commit unspeakable atrocities.
No Japanese American attack on U.S soil. All in all, their pre-measures for “national security” was a waste. About $9.5 million was spent to build internment camps and nurture the prisoners. This is somewhat a similar situation to today. After the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, many people, specifically, Americans, became very xenophobic and racist against Muslims and Arabs. The most obvious reason is that al-Qaeda, a middle eastern terrorist group, ended up being the people who hijacked the planes and crashed them. Soon after the event, most Americans begin to have this evil vein in them. Arabs and Muslims were being discriminated wherever they go. Airports began to have extra security and, although they won’t admit it, they specifically target people who aren’t white. It may seem to be extra security, but it’s straight up discrimination. This process can be extremely humiliating and terrifying. They usually don’t find anything but yet they check everything they have. America should remind themselves of the internment of Japanese Americans. Of how none of them actually committed a crime and imagine that for Arabs and Muslims. So they should stop treating any Middle Easterners as if they were criminals. Stereotypes shouldn’t define a person and prevent them from receiving the same rights a “True
This paper critically analyses and clearly brings out the existing and well known correlations of discrimination and ill treatment against various groups that live and stay in the United States of America. Various injustices, accusations and false accusations have been made against a number of America populations with the Cold War and the communist terror used as a justification. The paper compares to events; the Japanese treatment after the Pearl Harbor and the labeling of Americans as communists after the cold war. The treatment that is accorded to Muslims and other Arabic groups after the9/11 attack will then create a clear comparison and insight to the whole issue about discrimination in the USA.
The issue of discrimination has been one that has been with our country for years. It became an issue again with the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. It is known that people of Arab decent were behind the attack. Because of that, a huge issue of racial profiling has come up as people look at all people of that decent as evil terrorists. Most of these people have been living in the United States all their lives, and have done nothing to warrant the accusations. The question then becomes, should we let these people go on living innocent until proven guilty, or should we make an exception in this case? Our nation has lived by the code of “innocent until proven guilty” since its creation so many years ago, but not in cases such as this. Only twice in our history have our borders been broken into by foreign enemies who have launched an attack on us. The first was during World War 2, when the Japanese flew over Pearl Harbor and bombed it. The second was recently with the aforementioned World Trade Center attacks. In the first case, the Japanese-Americans living in this country were rounded up and relocated. Chances are most of them had lived here their whole lives. But that did not matter. Should the same thing be done today? Are there “spies” within our borders? And will the actions of Osama bin Laden spark a new racial war in this country? Americans are not going to forget September 11th any time soon, and this is the debate going on today.