[happygrl]

For accuracy's sake, they were relocation camps, with several internment camps for those considered to be hostile. Japanese in the interior were not sent to camps. West coast Japanese were relocated.

Thanks for the recommended reading; I have heard from Californians who lived through those times that there absolutely were Japanese signaling to offshore ships and otherwise planning sabatoge.

These guys are ALWAYS feeling "insulted."

And yes, the clamor for internment will be irresistable...

[Travis McGee]

Here is something important to understand about the Japanese internment of WW2:

By 1941 we knew from broken Japanese codes about 100s of active Japanese spies and potential saboteurs in the USA.

Post Pearl Harbor this presented a quandry: if we just went out and arrested them, the Japs would have known that their codes were broken. Very few people knew about this, obviously.

So FDR pushed for internment as a way to round up the spies and sabateurs without tipping our knowledge of their codes.

Internment of all west coast Japanese was the solution, the spies were rounded up with the loyal, and they never knew they had been the main target, or that the Japanese codes were broken.

I wish more people understood this.