“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”
Well yes, if they are forbidden from being anywhere other than the camps, thus having nowhere to go, and therefore having to live in the camps.
Are you sure you got your information correct? Not saying you are wrong, I’ve just never knew this.
“Are you sure you got your information correct? Not saying you are wrong, I’ve just never knew this.”
You are aware that they left the camps to go to school and work, right?
They were “evacuated” only from areas deemed to be “military zones” on the West Coast. They could, and many did, go elsewhere. And, yes, they were in danger from certain elements of the population. There were separate detention camps for Japanese thought to be disloyal. For the evacuation camps, the Administration’s policy was that anyone could leave if he had a job and could be self-supporting, was wealthy enough to support himself, or had someone who would support him, in each case outside the military zones. The USSC in Ex Parte Endo went further by holding that no loyal Japanese could be held against his desires, period.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/323/283/case.html
I am not saying that the actions taken by FDR were the best possible, but the left and racial grievance groups have distorted and misused this incident. Reading Michelle Malkin’s book is worthwhile if someone wants to actually understand the full situation in 1941-42. Japanese in other parts of the country were not included in the evacuation.