Japanese Internment

When the United States entered World War II, following the Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Japanese immigrants and their descendants, including those born in the United States, and therefore citizens by birth, were placed in a very awkward situation. The immigrants were resident aliens in the United States, a country at war with their country of birth. (612, Bizzell) Amongst the hysteria following the U.S. entry into World War II, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt …

…learn from the Japanese internment is that Civil Rights and Liberties are vulnerable. Even a political system with checks and an extremely strong judiciary will not always champion those rights successfully. “ On May 16, 1942, my mother, two sisters, niece, nephew and I left…by train. Father joined us later. Brother left earlier by bus. We took whatever we could carry. So much we left behind, but the most valuable thing I lost was my freedom”(670, Bizzell)