The standard excuse of tyrants. "Time is of the essence! Do not waste valuable time thinking about what we're doing, you must ACT NOW OR ELSE WE ARE DOOMED!"
I don't think any American leaders were happy about or proud of the necessity to segregate Japanese Americans, but I also do not think they had any kind of alternative to doing just that.
Well, there wasn't anything else that would allow the political cronies of various California Democrats to loot the property of Americans of Japanese descent.
Given the immediacy of the crisis, their abject fear of further and more devastating attacks HERE and their knowledge of limited available US military resources and or lack of confidence in US military readiness...well, what else could they do in a hurry???
You do realize that had the Clinton Administration adopted that attitude on April 19th, 1995, you and I would still be locked up in a "temporary detention camp" right now?
The democrats and Hitlery in particular would have loved to locked all of us up. If Kerry had won, I fully expected to have 4 years of personal IRS hell.