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| - During World War 2 the American government decided to send all persons of Japanese descent into concentration camps, this included American Citizens. These camps were in no way as bad as Nazi Concentration camps but people were still imprisoned without having committed any crime. Even though they were some of the most loyal, productive citizens, they had ancestors from the Japan and that was enough to indict them. German and Italian citizens who were not American citizens were also sent to internment camps.
- Japanese American Internment refers to the forced removal of approximately 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans (62 percent of whom were United States citizens) from the West Coast of the United States during World War II. While approximately 10,000 were able to relocate to other parts of the country, the remainder – roughly 110,000 men, women and children – were sent to hastily constructed camps called "War Relocation Centers" in remote portions of the nation's interior.
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| - During World War 2 the American government decided to send all persons of Japanese descent into concentration camps, this included American Citizens. These camps were in no way as bad as Nazi Concentration camps but people were still imprisoned without having committed any crime. Even though they were some of the most loyal, productive citizens, they had ancestors from the Japan and that was enough to indict them. German and Italian citizens who were not American citizens were also sent to internment camps. American Citizens of German and Italian descent, however were not sent to these camps, mainly because they registered low on the melanin count, i.e. their skins were white. In the '80s the government apologized and gave Japanese Americans, reparations.
- Japanese American Internment refers to the forced removal of approximately 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans (62 percent of whom were United States citizens) from the West Coast of the United States during World War II. While approximately 10,000 were able to relocate to other parts of the country, the remainder – roughly 110,000 men, women and children – were sent to hastily constructed camps called "War Relocation Centers" in remote portions of the nation's interior. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066, which allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones", from which "any or all persons may be excluded." This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington, except for those in internment camps. In 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the exclusion, removal, and detention, arguing that it is permissible to curtail the civil rights of a racial group when there is a "pressing public necessity." Some compensation for property losses was paid in 1948, but most internees were unable to fully recover their losses. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government. The legislation stated that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership", and beginning in 1990, the government paid reparations to surviving internees.
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