The Japanese Internment camps were so difficult because the Japanese people being kept there were American citizens. They weren't treated especially harshly, but the fact that Americans were being kept against their will was disturbing
Japanese-Americans .
Of the approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans who were relocated to internment camps during World War 2, 62% of them were American citizens. Half of those interned were children.
It was confiscated by the government and auctioned to whites, usually at very low prices.
Japanese Americans were interned during World War 2 because some Americans feared they would be disloyal.Japan was urging Japanese Americans to act as spies. However, there was no evidence that any Japanese Americans had engaged in espionage or sabotage. During the entire war only ten people were convicted of spying for Japan and these were all Caucasian.Another factor was that white farmers were concerned about the competition from Japanese American farmers and saw internment as a way to get rid of their competitors.The US Government made amends through the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, when $20,000 per internee was paid out to individuals who had been interned or relocated, including those who chose to return to Japan. Some Japanese and Japanese Americans who were relocated during World War II received compensation for property losses, according to a 1948 law.
After the event of Pearl Harbor, Americans felt threatened by the Japanese-Americans. The Americans thought the Japanese-Americans on the East coast had contact with their kind in Japan and that they should cut that conact. They immedietly started moving all Japanese-Americans to interment camps all over, but left them the choice of either going to the camps, or going to Japan. Not many moved back to Japan, feeling defient and angry. The Japanese-Americans lived in their camp for under ten years, and then where allowed to leave.
Japanese-Americans .
They were interned.
No. Ike was not president when the Japanese-Americans were interned: Franklin Roosevelt was, and he did authorize it. He also authorized interning German-Americans and Italian-Americans - many in Montana, and many in Texas. I do not know why we do not hear about these interned citizens.
Japanese Americans and Canadians were put interned due to fears by the government that they would spy for their homeland.
Becuase thier yellow
Only 62% per wikipedia
Japanese Americans living on the west coast of the US were interned for the duration of the war. There was mass hysteria about their supposed lack of loyalty. Strangely enough Japanese Americans in the Hawaiian Islands were not interred.
Of the approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans who were relocated to internment camps during World War 2, 62% of them were American citizens. Half of those interned were children.
The U.S government believe they were spies sent by the Japanese to disrupt the war effort
They had no choice. If they resisted they would be arrested and interned anyway.
During World War II, Japanese Americans were treated extremely unfairly. Specifically, President Roosevelt signed an executive order which called for all Japanese Americans in the US to be rounded up and moved into camps.
It was confiscated by the government and auctioned to whites, usually at very low prices.