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Wherever There’s A Fight Book Review Ramiro Espino Carlos Perez November 28, 2017 The book WHEREEVER THERE’S A FIGHT is written by two authors and their names are Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi. Elaine Elinson was part of ACLU of Northern California for about two decades as the communications director. Elaine is a mother of one and helped write Development Debacle: The World Bank in the Philippines which was banned due to the Marcos regime. She had other works published in the Los Angles Daily Journal as well in the San Francisco Chronicle. When Elaine was writing this book she dedicated it to her father who wanted to know what the world was like and to her mother for telling her to go after what she believes in. The second …show more content…

Some people thought this was a reasonable act and some, “believed that the government had a right “to establish military zones and to remove persons, either citizens or aliens, from such zones when their presence may endanger national security, even in absence of law”. (Elison and Yogi 431) Korematsu v. United States was a case where they wanted to determine if Fred Korematsu had violated Dewitt’s exclusion order. This case made the Japanese American give up everything they owned and move to camps. The government thought the Japanese American were going to be a problem. Tom Watanabe explains how he can remember, “The room was twenty by twenty. In that room there was my wife, my two sisters, myself, the other families almost twelve people. All we had was enough room to walk by. Up in Manzanar it’s 100 degrees during the day.” (Elison and Yogi 423) Justice Owen Roberts explains how Korematsu was convicted of being punished of someone not submitting to imprisonment based on his family, and there was no evidence that proved he was not loyal to the United States. This act was absent to marshal law and was right in the line of fire of racism. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 barred Chinese children born in the United States with Chinese parents would not be granted a citizen ship even though the Chinese were barred from …show more content…

Overall the book in my opinion the book is a good book and it is loaded with tons of information of how California became the state it is today. The book provides various example of the problems that the people coming to California were facing at the time. Before reading the book I thought only a few things happened that made California what it is today. However, once I started reading the chapters of the book I started to notice there were a lot more things that immigrants and people born with parents that were not a natural born citizen had to face and sometimes they fixed the problem and sometimes instead of doing what is right government would try to find anything possible for the problem not to be fixed. When I finished the book the yes thoughts about the book started to change. Government stepping in and only trying to do what is best for their citizens changed the way I viewed the topic. It changed my way I view the topic because they are supposed to be fighting for everyone to be equal as well for everyone to receive the same help as people that were born in the United States instead they did the opposite and only fought when it benefited the government more than the people. At time the things they were arguing against shouldn’t even have mattered. There was a Public Works Art Project sponsored by the federal agency and when they were in southern California, Jose

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The Constitution limits power on Government through Checks and Balances. In a 1944 case between Korematsu and the United States during World War II, a presidential executive order gave the military authority to exclude citizens of Japanese descent from areas deemed critical to national defense and potentially vulnerable to espionage. Along with this they also arrested Japanese Americans and forced them into internment camps. Korematsu however, a US citizen from ancestry descent, refused to leave his home in San Leandro, California. Korematsu appealed, and in 1944 the case reached the Supreme Court.

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It gives you a real perspective on immigration then, and brings you to think about immigration now. The immigration process and overseas experience was so depressing, I wonder how anyone that had something to lose could do it at all. In fact, some personal accounts of the immigrants reminded me of a book on concentration camps I just read. Especially on the port and then the boat, the immigrants were treated like animals, especially the Chinese.

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“If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up ”(Fred Korematsu). In 1941 The Pearl Harbor was bombed, America was in fear. A year later, February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066 which brought out the internment camps for Japanese Americans. In 1944, Korematsu spoke up for his rights as a Japanese- American citizen and he fought against the government. Fred Korematsu took a stand against the United States government for his rights by resisting arrest and placement into internment camps, and these actions resulted in a huge court case where he was accused guilty, though Korematsu lost, he should have been justified to evade the executive order.

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The case of Korematsu v. US, which was sparked by Executive Order 9066, remains a significant event in the history of Japanese American incarceration during World War II. This order, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942, resulted in the forced relocation and internment of over 120,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. The basis for the case was the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which was challenged on the grounds that it violated the civil rights of Japanese Americans. The historical context surrounding this argument was the fear and hysteria fueled by the attack on Pearl Harbor and widespread anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States. This sentiment was unwarranted, as the Munson report states that Japanese immigrants

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Oscar Deolarte Social Studies:3, English:2 2/22/16 Relocation Camps Unjustified On December 7, 1942 the Japanese attacked an American naval base on Hawaii called Pearl Harbor. This surprise attack on the Pacific fleet left the West Coast open to a potential attack which could have no retaliation due to the decimated fleet numbers. The U.S government then issued Executive Order 9066, which required the relocation of the Japanese and anyone of Japanese descent living in the U.S. That leads us to the controversy surrounding the evacuation. Was the relocation of Japanese-Americans during World War II justified?

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After the Pearl Harbor attacks during World War II, President Roosevelt, concerned about national security and the sizable Japanese-American population along the coast, issued an order for their relocation inland. Fred Korematsu, a U.S. citizen born to Japanese immigrant parents, was arrested in San Leandro, California, on May 30, 1942, for being in public areas and refusing to comply with the government's directive to evacuate coastal regions and relocate to inland detention centers. Korematsu contended that Executive Order 9066 violated the Fifth Amendment, leading to one of the most notorious Supreme Court cases and a significant battle for civil rights in history. To explore the significance of this legal battle requires an examination

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The fact that it solely depicts the Phelan perspective and that we would not be aware of the American perspective in 1901 is the most noteworthy of these. Phelan is not known to talk to other sources besides the Legislature. In contrast to the serious labor unrest and commercial disruptions that occurred before the Exclusion Laws, the influx has kept California safe and has resulted in comparative prosperity over the past ten years. It states “Legislature submitted by referendum the question of Chinese immigration to a popular vote.” This proves that the only way they were able to reform it was the Legislature with the vote.

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Eventually, the United States repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act by President Roosevelt signing the Magnuson Bill in 1943. [1] Though the repeal of the Act ended white American worker and legislator's discrimination of the Chinese it proves that the U.S. was wrong to implement the exclusion. That is because it did not work. In fact, it had a positive impact on the Chinese communities with unity, support, workmen ship, courage, and pride. They became strong-willed and overcame the obstacles of the exclusion law with the paper system and the formation of China town networks.

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With this order, Roosevelt mandated to federal troops that between 110,00 and 120,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast be relocated into internment camps that were almost always in the middle of nowhere (Doc. 3). Japanese-Americans lost everything as a result of this; they had to quickly sell their homes and businesses within a matter of a few days and could only take what they could carry to the camps. This is solid proof that Japanese lost rights due to the war rather than being given an opportunity to advance economically or

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Due to the increasing fear of a Japanese attack on the West Coast, Lt. General John L. Dewitt recommended that all people of Japanese descent living in America be removed to the interior of the country. In the article “An American Tragedy: The Internment of Japanese-Americans During World War II” by Norman Y. Mineta, former US Secretary of Transportation, Dewitt backed up his suggestion with rumors that “ethnic Japanese on the West Coast were signaling Japanese ships out in the Pacific ocean” and they “had stockpiled numerous rounds of ammunition and weapons” (Mineta 161). In order to combat this threat in case of enemy invasion, the camps would detain the Japanese Americans so they cannot aid the enemy. The warped logic used to imprison 110,000 people purely based on ethnic background was convincing enough to the American people that they didn’t even question

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The Chinese Exclusion Act was meant to control the chinese from coming in and rules for the ones that were already in the US. The US,”When the exclusion act expired in 1892”(document 3). These four documents showed us that immigration has changed alot over time some positive and negative. These four showed differences in how immigrating was difficult for everyone in some way.

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The internment of Japanese Americans during WWII was not justified. After Pearl Harbor, many Americans were scared of the Japanese Americans because they could sabotage the U.S. military. To try and solve the fear President Franklin D Roosevelt told the army in Executive order 9066 to relocate all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. They were relocated to detention centers in the desert. Many of them were in the detention centers for three years.

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According to Jeff Guo and Daron Taylor from Washington Post, when Asian immigrants arrived during the mid-1800s, they were met with intolerance as “the popular media often portrayed them as scoundrels, degenerates, and job-stealers.” Additionally, writer Jonathan Freedman pointed out that “the debased and racist attacks on Chinese” had led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which was one of the early methods to limit immigration, or specifically Asian immigration. Also, fear of Asian immigrants taking control was a prevalent factor for the Exclusion Act. For example, a literature titled “The Rise of Fu Manchu” depicts of “an Asiatic villian” who plans to take over the world. It wasn’t until after the second World War when Americans opened their arms of acceptance and appreciation towards Asian immigrants.

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Although the Chinese only took undesirable jobs with low wages that the “whites shunned,” Americans labeled the Chinese as “unfair labor competition” and a threat to their economic stability. Racism and economic hardships due to a loss of jobs, was “a major reason why the dominant white population wanted to exclude” the Chinese. Due to societal pressures and discrimination, Chinese Americans were denied “basic civil rights...equal protection under law...nationalization… [and] immigration to the U.S.,” as their basic liberties were taken away with racism. Although the Chinese Exclusion Act was created to improve economic conditions, it included anti-Chinese sentiments that the Chinese were a threat to white labor and the purity of the white race in America, causing much conflict and violence to occur between white Americans and the Chinese.

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Thesis: The Chinese Exclusion Act. A document that was first signed in 1882 by President Chester A. Arthur. This was and still is important because it was the first law that restricted immigration into the United States. This document was signed because Congress was concerned about keeping white “racial purity,” even though the Chinese population consisted of only 0.002 (two thousandths) percent of the whole population.

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