Identify two different words or phrases you would use to describe the internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War 2 and explain why you think those are accurate descriptions?

Answer 1

Deplorable and unconstitutional. The Japanese Americans were not spies nor were they the enemy of the Americans. They were not even allowed to be citizens. The only ones that were citizens were the ones born in the US. The leaders of the government overreacted. They wanted to intern the Germans and Italians but prominent people stopped them. No one spoke up for the Japanese however. The Supreme Court declared the internment unconstitutional and I totally agree. The leaders left them in the internment camps long after the war was over. Those wonderful people lost their homes and their possessions and the respect of the American people. They had nothing to do with the Japanese of Japan. The internment places were ramshackle, filthy, cold places with no furniture or adequate bathrooms. They suffered for years all due to the arrogant, racist American leaders and the general populous who did not rise up to stop the madness.