Nonetheless. our Government has not acknowledged these actions and other countries have not officially reprimanded us because of it. For example. soon after December 7. 1941. the United States contacted the Governments of Chile and other South American countries and requested that they round up their residents of Japanese ancestry and send them to the United States to be used by the United States in negotiations for the return of American prisoners of war held by Japan. Many Latin Americans of Japanese descent were arrested. stripped of their passports or visas. and shipped to the United States. Once in the United States. they were treated as illegal aliens. subject to deportation and repatriation. The internees vulnerable position under the law basically left their fate in the hands of the State Department and Department of Justice. Those caught in this situation were considered repatriable and thus available for use in hostage exchanges with Japan.
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