Imagine it is 1942, and you are a Japanese-American. You wake up one morning just to find out that you will be going to a prison camp. You only have a few days to prepare. You begin to question whether or not your own government trusts you. In 1942, the U.S. government issued an order that the people of Japanese descent on the west coast move further towards the center of the country and go to internment camps. This order wasn't justified and definitely not constitutional. Does the government really think their own loyal citizens would betray their country? The conditions in the internment camps were extremely poor. People at the camp were given a tiny barrack to share with 11 other people. These barracks were about 20 by 16 feet. Could you …show more content…
Most Japanese- Americans were very loyal to their country and couldn't imagine betraying the U.S. The United States government suspected that all people of Japanese descent were bad people, but that's not true in the least bit. There was no reason and no excuse for the U.S. government to intern Japanese-Americans. Why would the United States government not trust their own citizens? The Japanese-Americans were very loyal to the country they lived in and loved. The U.S. government thought that the Japanese-Americans would betray them eventually. Another 66% of the people in the camps were born in the U.S, too. It's highly unlikely that the Nisei, who were born in America, would betray their own government. Even though the U.S. government thought that the Japanese-Americans were spies, they weren't. Nearly 50% of the people at the camps were babies, therefore they couldn't have been spies. The Japanese-Americans must have felt betrayed since their own government betrayed them. I could understand why some people thought the internment of Japanese-Americans was fair and justified. They wanted the country to be safe. If the U.S government wanted to intern Japanese-Americans, they should have treated them more like humans, not animals. The government took it too