Korematsu Essay

Korematsu was born to a Japanese-American family that owned a flower nursery in 1919. After World War II broke out, Japanese living in Pacific states were sent to internment camps. Korematsu refused to go to an internment camp. In 1942 he was arrested and sent to a camp. The U.S. Supreme Court supported his conviction in 1944 on the grounds of military necessity. In 1983, Korematsu appealed his conviction. Later that year a federal court in San Francisco overturned the conviction. In 1988 Congress passed legislation apologizing for the internments and awarded each survivor $20,000. While the American concentration camps never reached the levels of Nazi death camps as far as atrocities are concerned, they remain a dark mark on the nation's record
Franklin D. Roosevelt signed it because after the Pearl Harbor by the Japanese in 1941, Roosevelt was under a lot of pressure. Franklin D. Roosevelt was justified in sacrificing the liberty of individual citizens in the interest of national security because over 120,000 Japanese people were sent to live in internment camps. Roosevelt put all these people in internment camps and about 50% of the population in these camps were second hand generation Japanese which means they are Japanese but born in the US, and they are US citizens. This is called Nisei. [ (二世?, "second generation") is a Japanese-language term used in countries in North America and South America to specify the children born in the new country to Japanese-born immigrants (who are called Issei).] This shows how Roosevelt didn't care about what people really were and just based them on looks. This also shows that Roosevelt wanted Japanese people on the west coast to be in the camps and he didn't even care in to acknowledge what they really are. A similar situation in more modern times is Donald Trump and many others wanting to have no muslims in America, even if they were born here or living here their entire