[LarryM]

You have no idea what you are talking about. The US was in danger of invasion by Japan and thus chose to relocate Japanese citizens (2/3 of the adults were not US citizens) away from the coast. Internment of enemy aliens in wartime has been part of Federal law for more than 200 years.

[Catspaw]

Interestingly, Japanese-Americans in Hawaii were not put in internment camps. The order was only for those on the mainland.

[Lurker]

Other than some small islands in the Aluetians, the US was never in danger of being invaded by Imperial Japan. They were scared to death of a couple of million scoped deer rifles.

Even if it were lawful to intern non-citizens, it certainly wasn't to intern citizens whos only crime was having slanty eyes.

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