President Roosevelt signed Executive order 9066 which force all Japanese American to relocation the west coast on February 1942 during World War II. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans in the mainland U.S., who mostly lived on the West Coast, were forced into interior camps. However, in Hawaii where 150,000-plus Japanese Americans composed over one-third of the population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were also interned. The internment is considered to have resulted more from racism than from any security risk posed by Japanese Americans. The Japanese attack pearl harobor, the US Navy base in Hawaii, On December 7th, 1941 was to have a trouble effect on American Japan community especially west cast” by explain. The Army claimed that the Japanese immigrants were signaling submarines off the coast, secretly participating in other deeds …show more content…
Single out by race, Japanese American become the victims of racial policies that stripped their right as American citizens. Japanese Americans, guilty or innocent, could be put in these concentration camps. In order to ensure the safety of the American population, over one hundred thousand Japanese Americans were put into camps. For example ,the ruling made by the Supreme Court in the Korematsu vs. United States was a decision that unconstitutionally denied rights to the Japanese Americans and implies rights can be given or taken away based on race. Korematsu claimed that the Executive Order violated his personarights as specified by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.. Korematsu argued that he was being deprived of his right to live freely without the appropriate