Was President Roosevelt's In Response To Executive Order 906 Not Justified?

Imagine being locked up with thousands of innocent people because of a bad thing that only a few people did. Unfortunately, you don't need to imagine it happened because it actually occurred in World War II after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, a naval base in Hawaii. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the Executive Order 9066 authorizing military forces to move Japanese-American citizens into internment camps. Many citizens of Japanese descent were forced to sell their homes and businesses, all to be left trapped in a barren wasteland with many more Japanese-Americans. Despite his valiant efforts to protect the United States of America, President Roosevelt was not justified in issuing the Executive Order 9066 because Japanese-Americans

Children posed no threat to the war effort and yet were locked away, as far from civilization as possible. Many in favor of Executive Order 9066 would argue that the internment camps they were placed in were only temporary living spaces until after the war for precautionary reasons. However, there is no need to take precautionary actions for children. The issuing of Executive Order 9066 was not justified because not all Japanese-Americans posed a threat. [BODY PARAGRAPH 2] Not only were the US citizens of Japanese descent harmless, but as US citizens they had their rights violated. Under the 5th Amendment, all persons accused of a crime are entitled to due process of law which was not given to those placed in internment camps. As US citizens, they should be treated as such. The Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps had no due process of law, never going to trial and only going straight to the internment camps. Some argued that at times of war, the amendment was not applicable, especially because of the large scale of people that would need trials and

No matter how long they or their families had lived in America, the US turned their back on them in an instant. Because of a suspicion of Japanese spies in the United States, they lost trust in the innocent citizens who happened to be of Japanese descent. Even if they wanted to serve their country, they weren't allowed to if they were Japanese-American. These US citizens were discriminated against by their own country because of their association with the enemy in the Pacific. There was a rational fear that Japanese-Americans would side with their native land over their new home in America. This, however, is not credible because many Japanese-Americans had lived in America for generations, considering America their true home. The fear in their race is no reason to support the Executive Order 9066. [CONCLUSION] The Japanese internment camps in the United States, caused by the President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, was not justified and never should have occurred. The citizens that were locked up in those camps, like women and children, posed no threat to the