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The numbers vary but it was around 110,000 and 120,000. FDR authorized the interment which was upheld by the Supreme Court. Jimmy Carter, in 1980 opened an investigation into this and it was found that race was the reason that the Japanese were interred. Regan signed the Civil Liberties Act in 1988 which gave $20,000 to each Survivor or heirs. The U.S. government eventually disbursed more than $1.6 billion to 82,219 Japanese Americans who had been interned.

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