On February 19. 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. Under that Order 120.000 peopleAmerican citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens of the immigrant generation from Japan. who were barred by law from becoming American citizenswere prohibited from living and working on the West Coast. Almost all were later sent to "relocation centers"-bleak barrack camps ringed by barbed wire and military guards in isolated areas of the West. Most remained in the camps until the mass exclusion was ended in December 1944. more than two and a half years after the policy of exclusion and detention began.
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