The order authorized the evacuation and relocation of all persons
deemed to be a threat to national security. What it did, however, was
lead to one of the most shameful times in American history, and that
was the internment of Japanese Americans. These were American citizens. From 1942 until 1945, the U.S. Government detained over 120,000
American citizens of Japanese ancestry and of resident immigrants
forcing them to live in internment camps, taking them away from their
homes, their farms, and their businesses, many in California, in the
San Joaquin Valley. As American citizens, the internment denied them their constitutional
right of due process. These were U.S. citizens who were robbed of their
rights and their freedoms.
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