During World War II Japanese-Americans were interned in 10 "relocation" camps. About 120,000 were interned, and about 2/3s were American citizens, supposedly under the protection of the Constitution. Some people called them detention centers or concentration camps. President Roosevelt signed an executive order for them to be rounded up and taken away from their homes and forced to live in "tarpaper-covered barracks of simple frame construction without plumbing or cooking facilities of any kind," according to the 1943 report by the War Relocation Authorit
y (Japanese American Internment web site and Japanese Internment in World War II web site).
The internment of American citizens violated the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution which says, "No person shall be...deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..." The people were simply rounded up and taken into captivity. There was no legal process involved where each person could defend him or herself in a court of law. Granted, there were no prison bars, but they were kept there and prevented from going home, so it amounts to the s
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