Executive Order 9066
Introduction: Japanese Immigrants moved to U.S. to look for peace and good jobs. Soon Japanese immigrants spread throughout the Northwest to provide farm labor, hoping to eventually own their own farms. Later on, the Japanese bombed the U.S. naval base in 1941. After that the President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Executive Order to relocate 110,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps. During this, many Japanese Americans suffered in these camps, like sickness and some family were separated. It sad how in this world people are not treated fairly and nobody doesn’t do anything about. Especially how the government does not really care about its citizens.
Japanese Immigration to the United States
In the 1880s, Japanese immigrants first came to the Pacific Northwest. Soon Japanese immigrants spread throughout the Northwest to provide farm labor, hoping to eventually own their own farms. In the West during the early 1900s, Utah and Idaho Company actively recruited the Issei to work farms in the Snake River Valley. For Example, “Japanese immigrants first came to the Pacific Northwest in the 1880s, when federal legislation that excluded further Chinese immigration created demands for new immigrant labor. Railroads in particular recruited Issei –or first generation
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Some internees died from poor medical care and a high level of stress. Those who disobeyed the rules, were sent to the Tule Lake facility. In December 1944 Public Proclamation, allowed these internees to return to their homes. For example, Japanese descent living in the US were removed from their homes and placed in internment camps. The US justified their action by claiming that there was a danger of those of Japanese descent spying for the Japanese. However more than two thirds of those interned were American citizens and half of them were children. (N/A,