[SubMareener]

We know exactly how FDR would have dealt with these folks. FDR sent all the Japanese Americans to interment camps for the duration of the war just to protect the fact that we had broken the Japanese codes and knew who their spies and saboteurs were in this country.

[Cboldt]

FDR sent all the Japanese Americans to interment camps for the duration of the war ...

- with the help and support of Congress
- only those that were located near the West Coast

Since the petitioner has not been convicted of failing to report or to remain in an assembly or relocation center, we cannot in this case determine the validity of those separate provisions of the order. It is sufficient here for us to pass upon the order which petitioner violated. To do more would be to go beyond the issues raised, and to decide momentous questions not contained within the framework of the pleadings or the evidence in this case. It will be time enough to decide the serious constitutional issues which petitioner seeks to raise when an assembly or relocation order is applied or is certain to be applied to him, and we have its terms before us.

Toyosaburo Korematsu v. United States, 323 US 214 (1944)

The issue of internment was confronted in Ex parte Endo, 323 US 283 (1944).

Korematsu's conviction was later overturned - see brief discussion at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547700/posts?page=486#486.

[Congressman Billybob]

It is a false statement that the imprisonment of 110,000 Japanese-Americans had NOTHING to do with espionage. None of them were ever tried and convicted of any such crime. On the other hand, Italian- and German-Americans, who were not imprisoned, WERE convicted of such crimes.

I wrote one of the definitive books on this subject, Manzanar, about a camp of that name near Lone Pine in the Sierra Nevada. It's available in better libraries everywhere.

Congressman Billybob

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