Among those who were interned were old men and women who worked in the fields of California. Their hard labor made barren lands productive. lands that many would lose as a result of the internment. They were not unscrupulous agents of a foreign power. they were business people who had worked to build small businesses and to be full members of their communities. They were not recent immigrants of uncertain loyalty. Most of those interned were born in this country and were proud citizens from birth. We cannot debate appropriate remedies for something as indefensible as the internment without first understanding the complete tragedy of our Governments policies and the needless injustice which the internment represented.
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