Did you have relatives in either camp? If so discuss it with
achilles2000, who had relatives in the internment camps.
“They weren’t imprisoned. They were told they couldn’t live in certain areas, and camps were for those who had no place else to go. They could leave the camps if they wanted, but they couldn’t go back to the prohibited zones (there’s a USSC case affirming that). Michelle Malkin wrote an interesting book on the issue of domestic Japanese and WWII. BTW, I have relatives who were in the camps.”
Yeah they were.
They were told they couldn't live in certain areas, and camps were for those who had no place else to go. They could leave the camps if they wanted, but they couldn't go back to the prohibited zones (there's a USSC case affirming that).
There's a bit more to it than that. No, they couldn't live in the exclusion zones designated by the Army, and coincidentally the entire West Coast. But a second order, issued by the Army in March 1942, said that they were forbidden from leaving the exclusion zones as well. So they had no where to go but the camps. Once in they were guarded by troops, refused permission to leave, and in some isolated incidents were shot when trying to go outside the barbed wire. But I'm sure they were such nice places that the internees didn't want to go anywhere else.