Examples Of Executive Order 9056

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Executive Order 9066 (Feb. 19, 1942) Due to World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave permission to the confinement of “tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and residents from Japan.” This executive order gave the military the power to “ban any citizen from a 50-60 mile wide coastal area from Washington State to California.” This order also gave the military permission to transport these citizens to centers that they ran in California, Arizona, Washington, and Oregon. This same order was also applied to residents of the U.S. who were of German or Italian descent; however, it was much worse for the Japanese Americans. This executive order destroyed communities and was aimed towards citizens and aliens. (Executive