Japanese Internment Camps Essay

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America has always been considered a well diverse melting pot throughout the ages. It has been a land of opportunity for many immigrants who have braved the voyage. Unfortunately, this has not been the truth for all immigrants. In 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes bombed a naval base in Pearl Harbor. Given that it was the first attack on American soil led many Americans to a state of panic. As a result of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans had endured a painful part of U.S. history.

In 1942, President Roosevelt he signed an executive order that relocated all Americans of Japanese ancestry to internment camps out of fear. There was over 127,000 United State Citizens that were imprisoned during World War II due to have Japanese Ancestors. Due to this order being past so quickly, many Japanese-Americans sold their homes, stores, and most of their assets, none of them knew
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Nearly two-thirds of the interns were Japanese-Americans, most of the people who were being held in these camps had never even been to Japan and some even veterans from World War I. Things like this are still occurring in today's time, there are still terrorist attacks and some of these attacks are coming from Muslims. It's not justifiable to just send everybody who is Muslim in a camp just because the President is looking out for his people, what about the people that truly love America, that were born here and are the “All American” type of people. Or the kind that came to America for a better life, so their kids and grandkids could have the best life there is, but when they get here or as they get older they start to realize that people look at them differently, that kids don’t want to play with them at the playground, or people feel uncomfortable sitting next to them on a bus/plane. How do you kick a whole race out for one person's