Japanese‐American Internment Cases
Japanese‐American Internment Cases.During World War II, the U.S. Army, acting under Executive Order 9066 signed by PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt on 19 February 1942 (and ratified by Congress a month later), ordered nearly 120,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans from the West Coast where the majority of them lived to move to prisonlike “relocation” camps in the interior of the United States. In the case of U.S. citizens, such action was taken only against those of Japanese ancestry, not against German Americans or Italian Americans. As a November 1941 civilian report stressed the loyalty of most Japanese Americans to the United States, and the FBI and U.S. military intelligence had planned only to detain potential spies or saboteurs, Roosevelt's claim of “military necessity” appears to have been a legal cover for the administration's concession to anti–Japanese‐American groups. These included economic...
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