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 …

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