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A 6 page paper which examines if the Japanese internment in WWII in the United States was a matter of racism or military necessity. The paper argues that the internment was because of racism. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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that the Japanese were put in camps for their own safety, those who argue that the Japanese in this nation posed a military threat because of their connections with their
homeland, and those who argue that the Japanese were singled out, through racist ideals, and thus put into camps. The following paper examines these perspectives and argues that the reason
behind their internment involves racist motives. The Internment of the Japanese "During World War II the U.S. government forced more than 120,000 Japanese Americans to leave their homes
and along with farms, schools, jobs, and businesses. In some cases family members were separated" (Lamb; Johnson, 2004). From the year 1942 to 1945 these people lived in internment camps.
"After the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. This act based on ethnicity permitted the military to bypass the
constitutional safeguards of American citizens in the name of national defense" (Lamb; Johnson, 2004). This order ensured that "persons of Japanese ancestry then living on the West Coast" could not
reside or work in certain areas (Lamb; Johnson, 2004). And, while it was relatively limited, "This traumatic uprootment culminated in the mass evacuation and incarceration of most Japanese Americans,
most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. They were detained for up to 4 years, without due process of law or any factual basis" (Lamb; Johnson,
2004). This was something that would ultimately result in a great deal of controversy over the rights of individuals in this nation: "They were forced to live in bleak,
remote camps behind barbed wire and under the surveillance of armed guards. Japanese American internment raised questions about the rights of American citizens as embodied in the first ten amendments
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