The U.S. government in 1942 moved about 110,000 Japanese Americans to camps called "War Relocation Camps". Many Japanese Americans lived on the coast of the Pacific. President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066 which was issued in February 19,1942. This allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones". In 1988 President Ronald Regan signed a legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government. This basically said that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership". The government gave more than $1.6 billion in reparations to Japanese Americans who had been interned. Article 1, Section 9 states: "The privilege of the the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it." But basically its Congress' decision to put this into action. Roosevelt's decision was just like President Abraham Lincoln's when he suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War.
To me, I think the government went crazy! This whole situation reminded me of the Holocaust. How the Nazis captured all those Jews and then tried to kill off the whole entire race. The government paniced just because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, but that doesn't give a good reason why to imprison other Japanese because of those people. That's like we put all of them to together and said that every last one of them bombed Pearl Harbor. Adolf Hitler didn't have a good reason for killing and imprisoning every Jew either. The government at least paid the damages for what they did but it still was a bad thing. Sometimes we just learn from other people's mistakes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment
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