The Impact Of President Roosevelt On Japanese American Internment

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President Roosevelt was not justified in issuing the order for internment for Japanese Americans because was in violation for moral human rights and provided unequal protection under the law. Roosevelt's decision on incarcerating the Japanese American citizens out of fear was wrong and I do not believe he was at all justified in his decision. President Roosevelt's decision on Executive Order 9066 was unjustified for various reasons that will be explained and show the truth behind why he was not and is not justified in his actions.

The Japanese American interment was issued by president Roosevelt in order to protects the American people from harm and provide defense against a threat to the united states of America. In irony he put thousands …show more content…

When we do things we usually do them out of two reasons, love or fear. When we have love we are not afraid, we do it because there is no threat to us or anyone else and we are reacting out of a good mindset. When we react out of fear, we not only tend to harm ourselves but we harm others as well. President Roosevelt reacted out of fear to the Japanese American people due to the attack on Pearl Harbor and thus creating the issue of interment that did not help the problem but made it worse. Reacting out of fear shows to others and thus caused more of an issue than what their already was. I do not support Roosevelt's decision because it was wrong to take away all of the Japanese citizens freedom because of an incident that happened by another nation. Interment just created discrimination, racism, and unfair treatment for one race of their nations actions. For these reasons I do not support or think the president was justified in ordering the issue of …show more content…

One of the counterarguments could be that the spies are what caused Roosevelt to take action. another counterargument could be that the actions of the Japanese empire is what resulted in the mistrust of Japanese heritage people because of the conspiracy of them and the Pearl Harbor attack. Many conclude that the actions of Japanese people caused the mistrust of all citizens that could be spies, traders, or have false loyalty to the US. Of course these are valid counterarguments but that still does not give President Roosevelt the right to intern all Japanese American people out of fear of attack again. Not all citizens of Japanese descent are spies. The fact that many even enrolled in fighting for the United Sates during the war proves that many were loyal to America even despite the discrimination. Many were true citizens but the ones that turned their back on America are the ones who could not be trusted and caused the internment

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