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
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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
When Pearl Harbor was attacked, Japanese Americans were suspected of spying on the US Government and selling information to Japan. This was enough reason for President Franklin D. Roosevelt to authorize the deportation and incarceration of over 110,000 Japanese Americans, using Executive Order 9066. This was not justified, and was not fair, to the Japanese Americans. 62% of the internees were United States citizens, and 99% of all Japanese Americans were not spies. Executive Order 9066 was an order signed and issued during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
As the tension with Japan increased, the authority doubted that the Japanese government had hidden connections with Japanese Americans and Japanese living in the United State, particularly, on the West
One detail that supports the claim is in “Forgetting the Constitution”. “In addition, the Japanese in America face a special problem. It is an old problem. It is racism” (Hakim). This detail supports the claim because it showed that the Americans disliked the Japanese (and Japanese Americans) before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Japanese Internment Camps- Rough Draft A nice day, Feb 20, 1942 then out of nowhere 20,000 Japanese Americans kicked out of there homes into horror camps, Internment Camps. At the time Japanese Internment camps where a good idea.
Roosevelt sent out an executive order stating that anybody that had Japanese blood in them was dangerous to our community and we had to remove them from our country and put them away in internment camps. That included Japanese American citizens. That was not fair for them. Roosevelt believed that all Japanese race was either a spy or someone that was out to destroy our country. Just like now with our current president that states that every single muslim race is a terrorist.
As opposed to righteous view that America was safeguarding its position in the war, the Japanese American internments were created out of resentment and racial prejudice fostered by other Americans. As the article “Personal Justice Denied” stated, the internments were led by “widespread ignorance of Japanese Americans contributed to a policy conceived in haste and executed in an atmosphere of fear and anger at Japan” (Doc E, 1983). It may seem like a precautionary cause to make internments but there aren’t any other extreme measures for other fronts. Caused by a hatred stirred by media and society’s view, many people disdain the Japanese.
This decision eventually led to the internment of Japanese citizens against their will. Fear, Panic and bad Counsel Led President franklin D.
In this paper, I will discuss the signing of Executive Order 9066, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, regarding the Japanese relocation and connecting back to the Pearl Harbor attack, thus, resulting in further negative opinions of both the first generation Japanese and the second generation of Japanese Americans. Event Description: Internment was brought about by a justifiable fear for the security of the nation. Japan had figured out how to pull off the assault on Pearl Harbor, which nobody had thought was conceivable. The possibility that they may assault the West Coast while the US military was still in shock was on everyone’s mind. Secondly, it was caused by racism.
We do not forgive easily. After World War II, our fear and resentment of Japan was strong in our hearts, as approximately 106,207 Americans were murdered and 248,316 Americans were wounded or declared missing by the hands of the Japanese. Even after the dust settled between our people, America never forgave Japan for their stubborn refusal to surrender and needless desire to drag on the war in hopes of negotiable bargains that would profit the cities of Japan. With Japanese American citizens in the heart of our country, President Roosevelt, clouded with war hysteria and racial discrimination against those with Japanese ancestry, he ordered Executive Order 9066 which resulted in the internment of Japanese American citizens. Many Americans felt that this order would protect America from Japanese espionage and attacks on our nation, but the Executive Order 9066 ushered an unjust wave of misinformation and insinuations to develop in
Jayna Marie Lorenzo May 23, 2023 Historiography Paper Professor Kevin Murphy Historiography Final: Japanese Internment “A date which will live in infamy,” announced President Roosevelt during a press conference after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Due to the military threat by the Japanese on the West Coast, on February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, ordering for the incarceration of all people of Japanese descent. The Order forced about 120,000 Japanese Americans into relocation centers across the United States where they remained in captivity until the war ended.
Amendment 5 was not followed. Amendment 5 states that everyone gets a trial before getting put into containment. The Japanese Americans were not given a trial, therefore that is one example of the Executive order being unconstitutional. “nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law…” ( Littel 287) What that means is that no one can deprived of their freedom,
Today, the internment is widely acknowledged as a horrible period in American history, and efforts are continuing to ensure that such violations of civil freedoms do not occur
The internment of Japanese Americans during WWII was not justified. After Pearl Harbor, many Americans were scared of the Japanese Americans because they could sabotage the U.S. military. To try and solve the fear President Franklin D Roosevelt told the army in Executive order 9066 to relocate all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. They were relocated to detention centers in the desert. Many of them were in the detention centers for three years.
How would you feel if one day you were told to leave your whole life behind to live in captivity just because people halfway across the world did something wrong? This horror story was all too true for the thousands of Japanese Americans alive during World War II. Almost overnight, thousands of proud Japanese Americans living on the west coast were forced to leave their homes and give up the life they knew. The United States government was not justified in the creation of Japanese internment camps because it stripped law-abiding American citizens of their rights out of unjustified fear.
Japanese internment camps made us question who was really an American and it relates to today’s issues. Internment camps were similar to concentration camps or prison and Japanese-Americans were put into them. Even though they were considered Americans, they were still treated unfairly by other Americans. So who is American?