Pros And Cons Of Japanese Internment

Executive Order 13769 was an order issued by the United States president Donald Trump on January 27th, 2017. This order was titled ‘Protect the Nation from foreign Terrorist Entries’. However, it was severely controversial as it seemed like the order was more of racial profiling against Muslim people. In addition, people criticized that an executive order boosted a conflict with the Muslims rather than solving it. Furthermore, it was also reflected as unnecessary order considering that U.S never experienced a terror since September 11 terror. The controversy of ‘Muslim ban’ is going through a similar flow as Japanese internment which was proposed by U.S government after the attack on Pearl Harbor. On February 19, 1942, three months after the

U.S government reflected Japanese as hypocritical, not trustable liars, and an ‘enemy’. A lot of people might claim that Japanese internment was a violation of freedom and liberty but in U.S point of view, it was a justified move which could limit the move of opponent from the war and eliminate the potential threat. Secondly, even though people were in internments, U.S provided and tried to make relatively good environment for the internees. As soon as the order was executed, 120,000 Japanese rooted people were captured and went to internment camps. This was a violation of liberty which initially took away all the businesses, jobs, and the normal life of Japanese Americans. However, it is clear that U.S government tried to provide them a livable environment inside an internment camps. They were served with three meals a day, they could stay with their families, and they were totally protected with totally armed American soldiers.( Not only from external threats but the hatred of U.S citizens toward Japanese people were already in uncontrolled level and Japanese internment compass were able to protect themselves from these threats

Even though most of the people were innocent and weren’t involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor, not all the ethnic Japanese Americans were loyal to America. Michelle Malkin, the author of a book ‘In defense of Internment’ claimed that a year before the Pearl Harbor attack, Japan was sending messages to U.S consulates that they are recruiting Japanese American spies on the West Coast and it failed as it was decrypted by U.S top officials. If this move from Japan was successful and U.S didn’t ordered the internment of Japanese Americans, it was definitely a threat for the safety of citizens. This proves that every Japanese individuals were suspected and Japanese internment was an inevitable or best choice to solve this problem. In fact, there were lots of people who were recruited by spies of Imperial Japan during war but they weren’t able to make their moves or complete their mission due to this order executed by John F.