Argumentative Essay On Japanese Internment

After the bombing on Pearl Harbor, Many Japanese Americans were wrongly convicted of being spies for the Japanese government and were detained by the United States government. The Japanese Americans were being told they were being kept in these camps for their own good but in reality they were keeping them there because they thought the Japanese Americans were a threat to the United States. Executive order 9066 resulted in the incarceration of many Japanese Americans primarily on the west coastThis was beyond unjust and a failure in political leadership in the United States. This was beyond unjust and a failure in political leadership in the United States.

First, When the United States detained many Japanese Americans it was unacceptable and

Countries such as Germany and Italy oppose a bigger threat to the United States, but since those people are more “white” they aren’t being detained. Basically the only reason the Japanese Americans are being detained is because of stereotypes and how they look. Although other countries oppose a bigger threat, Japanese Americans are being detained because of where they are from, Harry Paxton Howard stated, “Germans and Italians are ‘white.’ Color seems to be the only possible reason why thousands of American citizens from Japanese ancestry are in concentration camps. Anyway, there are no-Italian-American, or German-American citizens in such camps” (doc E). This piece of evidence is clear, saying that the only reason Japanese Americans are being detained are color and their ancestry. The quote says Germans and Italians are more ‘white’, this is basically saying that German and Italians aren’t being detained since they are white but Japanese Americans are being detained because they look different than others. All in all, this was a completely unacceptable thing for the United States government to do, and it was clearly down because of color, accentary and how they

Most if not all Japanese Americans ran small businesses or had jobs such as a fisherman or a farmer either way none of these jobs gave them access to weapons or something that could help the Japanese Americans. There were people and countries that were much more dangerous then the Japanese Americans weren’t being detained. Clearly the only reason they were being put in concentration camps is of how they look and where they are from. Japanese Americans mostly had simple jobs that didn’t give them access to any government material, Curtis B. Munson once wrote, “There is far more danger from Communists and people of the Bridges type on the Coast than there is from Japanese. The Japanese here is almost exclusively a farmer, a fisherman or a small businessman. He has no entree to plants (factories) or intricate machinery.” (doc D) This piece of evidence is clearly saying that there are countries that oppose much more threat but there people aren’t being detained because they look like everyother American. Also, most Japanese Americans had very simple jobs that gave them little to no access to things that would actually be useful to the Japanese government. For example if a Japanese American was a fisherman he had zero access to weapons and definitely didn't have access to files that would help the Japanese. In conclusion, Japanese Americans clearly were detained