Under the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice. they rounded up all the enemy aliens within our country most quietly and efficiently. The FBI had prepared in advance comprehensive card lists of all those who were potentially dangerous to our security. But there was a further problem Involved. because some of the potentially dangerous persons were American citizens. both natural born and naturalized. just as many of the most dangerous Communists within our land today are American citizens. Now. how was this problem handled after Pearl Harbor? The answer was Presidential Executive Order No. 9066 of February 19. 1942. which authorized the Secretary of War and such officials as he might designate to prescribe certain military areas from which potentially dangerous American citizens would be restricted.
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Naturalized citizens can be potentially dangerous.