But these were not "enemy aliens." AMERICAN CITIZENS were also rounded up and sent to the camps.
I disagree with your contention that they were somehow cutting themselves off from American society. Those that had been allowed to come over were prohibited from becoming citizens. They wanted to assimilate, but we didn't want them.
And explain to me how it is justified to seize the businesses and homes of any American citizens without compensation.
"But these were not "enemy aliens." AMERICAN CITIZENS were also rounded up and sent to the camps.
I disagree with your contention that they were somehow cutting themselves off from American society. Those that had been allowed to come over were prohibited from becoming citizens. They wanted to assimilate, but we didn't want them.
And explain to me how it is justified to seize the businesses and homes of any American citizens without compensation."
Ok, one at a time:
Yes, there were American citizens in the camps but by and large they were the children of the enemy aliens who had been interned. I for one would like to see a statistical breakdown of the interned persons; foreign national, naturalized citizen, natural born American, along with their repective ages at time of internment.
Hogwash, if they were legal residents of the US they could have made the effort to become naturalized citizens. But much like hispanics and others today, they refused to take the big bite and become full members of this society. They kept their ties to "the old country" and regarded themseves as "Japanese in America" not as Americans of Japanese descent.
I agree completely, the American government seizing private assets is unconscionable whether it was those of Japanese in 1942 or those of a putative drug dealer or drunk driver in 2004. However, the only anecdote cited above was a private sale to a doctor. I have seen no facts only an unsupported statement that the government seized property.