Japanese Internment Camps Are Never Justifiable

Many American citizens are willing to give up a certain degree of their rights, including their own privacy, to try and keep our country safe from terrorism. No matter the reason, however, it is never justifiable to interfere on our Constitutional rights. Former President Bush eavesdropping on innocent citizens, the USA PATRIOT Act, the Freedom Act, and Japanese internment camps are all primary examples of our constitutional rights as Americans being overlooked. “The United States trampling on the Constitutional rights of its citizens to protect the nation is never justifiable.” After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1942, the United States were on their toes. Because the bombing was done by Japan, harassment began to grow among the nation against Japanese-Americans. On February 9th, 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, under which -- “without due process of law” -- anyone with a Japanese heritage, citizen or not, was to be forced out of their homes and sent away to a “relocation” facility. These were located throughout the west. One group of Japanese-Americans that were in the internment camps were the Issei. They were “extremely disgruntled” because they had lost a “lifetime's worth of work, through the seizure of their property.”

The only group of Japanese Americans that were of any suspicion at the time were the Nikkei, yet all Japanese Americans, no matter what group they were a part of, were forcibly removed from their homes and their homes were seized. Although it was believed to be protecting the country, all it did was cause unnecessary trauma to innocent American citizens. They were torn away from friends and family members and forced into camps until WWII was over, while they were put into