What would you do if you got stripped from your home and placed in a categorized camp because others simply didn't think your “race” was trusting? Well, that's exactly what happened to the Japanese when they were forced into internment camps for their own “beneficial safety” during world war 2. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, which was the United States Naval base in Hawaii Territory. Because of the unexpected attack America responded back and had officially started a war. WWII officially known as the second world war was a well-known event that lasted from 1939 to 1945. This war between the Japanese and Americans wasn't too beneficial for the Japanese Americans back at home, for they were taken out of their homes, into camps because of others doing. Japanese internment camps were an unjust policy in U.S. History because it was based on racial profiling, it subjected Japanese-Americans to squalid conditions, and it violated citizens’ 4th Amendment rights of search and seizure. Internment camps …show more content…
For over 80 years Asian immigrants have already reviewed as an “economic threat.” America created laws that socially banned them from the country, laws that were created to segregate Japanese Americans from Americans. The evacuees that were forced into the camps were mostly American citizens most have never even been to Japan, Japanese American who were farmers and business owners and mostly all were innocent but all were stripped of their civil rights and human dignity. The reason for the high populated campsite was because they racial profiled anyone that looked Japanese like this quote states, “Color seems to be the only possible reason why thousand of an American citizen of Japanese ancestry are in concentration camps.” This shows how little they cared about the race it didn’t matter who and how you are if you looked like a possible enemy you were treated like