Some years ago US courts decided that internment of Japanese civilians during WWII was a bad thing, and ordered compensation for the survivors.
I don't remember details of the decisions or amounts, but liberals love to draw moral equivalences between this and real atrocities committed by axis powers -- even though it means throwing their own saint FDR under the bus!
But never fear -- liberals like Ickes can always find ways to blame others for their own wrong-doings.
In this case, as you repeat, Ickes blamed racist right-wingers who he claimed would attack Japanese civilians if they weren't kept in protective custody.
The general consensus today is that such fears were overblown and those "corrective actions" taken at FDR's orders were wildly inappropriate.
So, in this case (as in most), Democrats have only themselves to legitimately blame, regardless of how urgently they wish to accuse others.
“The general consensus today is that such fears were overblown and those “corrective actions” taken at FDR’s orders were wildly inappropriate.”
As is generally the case, the general consensus is generally mistaken.
A significant number of persons of Japanese descent residing in America and its territories were providing information to the Japanese.