The Executive Order 9066 was an ordered issued by America during World War II in 1941 from the japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. As a result of the bombing this order was issued, sending more than 110,000 japanese americans living on the west coast of the U.S and were placed in internment camps. This was an unnecessary and racist act made by America, “this imprisonment was the result of two closely related emotions; racism and hysteria (japanese-american internment was an unnecessary and racist act)”.
Many people agree that this event was very unnecessary, Edison Tomimaro Uno a former internee notes that the Japanese people relocated to camps for their own “protection” was sheer hypocrisy, he calls this a crime attributable to racism and economic and political opportunism which is a statement I agree with. More than 25,000 japanese americans have served the army and not a single case of japanese disloyalty was made during the whole war. This just further proves my statement. Not only did the japanese americans who were imprisoned proven to have no intentions of betraying america, but such harsh measures were never taken against the german or italian nationals.
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The moment the gates closed, they felt their freedom being ripped from them, they were no longer free. In the camps they had to wait in line for everything they did, for food, water, the bathroom, etc. They had to give up everything, leaving their homes behind to live in a camp, crowded and behind a barbed wire fence. In the end,many years later after world war II, a Federal Commission’s findings convinced congress that the internment camps were wrong and the United States government accepted full