[staytrue]

In Orange County California, there is a building owned by a Japanese-American family, named for the Mexican to whom they gifted their nursery business prior to their deportation. He returned it to them after the War.

There is a body of thought that the internment was not about security, but was about stealing the land and other possessions of the Japanese-Americans.

[decimon]

There is a body of thought that the internment was not about security, but was about stealing the land and other possessions of the Japanese-Americans.

My take has been that the federal policy was for security but that opportunists did what opportunists do.

Running those camps was a waste of resources while on an all-out war footing.

[decimon]

Hawaii was a different story. There were far more Japanese-Americans there and they were not relocated to any camps. OTOH, all of Hawaii was placed under martial law.