Why Were Japanese Americans Intermed

Why were Japanese-Americans Intermed? World War II was a tragic international incident. Among those involved included the red, white, and blue eagle herself, America. During the events of World War II, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor of the United States. The U.S.’s retorted back with two atomic bombs and a plan to exclude people, including citizens, of Japanese ancestry in the States. The country that boasts freedom and is in some eyes, the embodiment of freedom, decided to segregate Japanese-Americans to concentration camps, away from their homes and work on the West Coast. They fear that the Japanese-Americans would side with Japan or work with them, resulting in their removal. The governmental enforcement of the migration of persons of Japanese ancestry is unconstitutional and unjust.
The majority of the Japanese people interned in camps were American citizens, meaning that their rights should be protected by the U.S. Constitution, and that they are endowed rights and privileges. To elaborate, America sent their own citizens, albeit with Japanese ancestry, to concentration camps, which oppressed their rights as a U.S. citizen. Although the interment of the Japanese-Americans violated the Constituion, some argue that “under conditions of modern warfare” (Document D, The Korematsu Supreme Court, paragraph 1), rights can be restricted “under circumstances of direstemergncy and peril” (paragraph 1). Their argument would be valid, of course, if they actually had real and sufficient evidence that would incriminate the