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My research shows that in 1943, census info re Japanese Americans was released per request from President Roosevelt. The allegation that it was used to "round up" the Japanese comes from Michelle Bachmann.

Michelle Bachmann did make that allegation, however it was in fact accurate.

See for instance this article that appeared in the New York Times in 2000: http://www.seattlepi.com/national/cens17.shtml

Then in 2007, new documents released by the government showed that the census was involved more than had been previously admitted: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-30-census-role_N.htm ... quote: The Census Bureau turned over confidential information including names and addresses to help the Justice Department, Secret Service and other agencies identify Japanese-Americans during World War II, according to government documents released today.

Seeing as both of these were found in the first page of a Bing search for "japan census used for internment" and within the first 3 pages of the same search on Google, I would suggest your "research" method is somewhat faulty.