Japanese Internment
When the United States entered World War II, following the Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Japanese immigrants and their descendants, including those born in the United States, and therefore citizens by birth, were placed in a very awkward situation. The immigrants were resident aliens in the United States, a country at war with their country of birth. (612, Bizzell) Amongst the hysteria following the U.S. entry into World War II, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. This order authorized the War Department to prescribe military areas from which any group of people could be excluded. This served as the legal basis for the evacuation and internment of the evacuation and internment of over 110,000 Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Most were forced to sell their homes and businesses and suffered huge losses, including schooling and careers that were completely disrupted. Civil Rights and Civil Liberties are two things that were stripped fr
The lesson we must learn from the Japanese internment is that Civil Rights and Liberties are vulnerable. Even a political system with checks and an extremely strong judiciary will not always champion those rights successfully. " On May 16, 1942, my mother, two sisters, niece, nephew and I left...by train. Father joined us later. Brother left earlier by bus. We took whatever we could carry. So much we left behind, but the most valuable thing I lost was my freedom"(670, Bizzell) After more than 40 years, President Ronald Reagan finally signed into law the federal Civil Liberties Act of 1988, in which the Congress declared it's recognition of a grave injustice done to both citizens and permanent residents of Japanese ancestry by the evacuation relocation, and internment. The excluded individuals of Japanese ancestry suffered great losses such as their homes, businesses put their education and job training on hold, and after the war found their homes ransacked and their possessions stolen or lost all of which resulted in significant
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