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Japanese Internment Duringww2

The “Evacuation” of the Japanese Following Pearl Harbor By December of 1942 the United states had interned an estimated 110,000 Japanese in concentration camps. There were numerous justifications for this action, the most prevalent being that these Japanese were security risks. Cries of warning over the proximity of these “enemy aliens” to locations of strategic importance were voiced often. But the genesis of this idea can be traced to before even World War I. In 1913 the Webb Act stripped all alien Japanese of the right to own property. In 1924 came the Exclusion Act which prohibited Japanese immigration. These laws, and many others, are evidence of America’s prejudice towards the Japanese. Racism, despite any claims to the contrary, was the actual motivation for interning the Japanese in camps. In 1941 the Japanese living in the United States had cause to worry: war with the country of their ancestry seemed inevitable....