how were asian-american constitutional rights were broken in ww2 when they were foce to live in interment.....

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camp?please i really need the answer

Answer 1

Roosevelt's executive order was fueled by anti-Japanese sentiment among farmers who competed against Japanese labor, politicians who sided with anti-Japanese constituencies, and the general public, whose frenzy was heightened by the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor. More than 2/3 of the Japanese who were interned in the spring of 1942 were citizens of the United States.

Two important legal cases were brought against the United States concerning the internment. The landmark cases were Hirabayashi v. United States (1943), and Korematsu v. United States (1944). The defendants argued their fifth amendment rights were violated by the U.S. government because of their ancestry. In both cases, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the U.S. government.

Answer 2

On February 19th 1942 Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. Under the terms of the Order, some 120,000 people of Japanese descent living in the US were removed from their homes and placed in internment camps. The US justified their action by claiming that there was a danger of those of Japanese descent spying for the Japanese. However more than two thirds of those interned were American citizens and half of them were children. None had ever shown disloyalty to the nation. In some cases family members were separated and put in different camps. During the entire war only ten people were convicted of spying for Japan and these were all Caucasian.
In 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the exclusion, removal, and detention, arguing that it is permissible to curtail the civil rights of a racial group when there is a "pressing public necessity.
The Alien Enemies Act (which was one of four laws included in the Alien and Sedition Acts, passed into law in 1798) allowed for the United States government, during time of war, to apprehend and detain indefinitely foreign nationals, first-generation citizens, or any others deemed a threat by the government. As no expiration date was set, and the law has never been overruled, it was still in effect during World War II, and still is to this day.
Therefore, some continue to claim that the civil rights violations were, in fact, not violations at all, having been deemed acceptable as a national security measure during time of war by Congress, signed into law by President John Adams, and upheld by the Supreme Court. However, the majority of the detainees were American-born, thus exempt under law from the Alien and Sedition Acts except if found to directly be a threat due to their actions or associations
It has always been a difficult thing to draw any conclusion on. The debate was still raging when President Reagan officially apologized for the actions of the government, and made reparation to thos detainees still surviving. Many of those in the camps, once released, opted to return to Japan even though they were American citizens, having been born and raised as Americans in America. Others stayed and tried to rebuild their lives. It was a tragic period in history and the interment of Americans with Japanese ancestry is not forgotten.

Answer 3

Japanese American Internment was the forced removal of approximately 120,000Japanese and Japanese Americans (62 percent of whom were United States citizens) from the West Coast of the United States during World War II. While approximately 10,000 were able to relocate to other parts of the country, the remainder – roughly 110,000 men, women and children – were sent to hastily constructed camps called "War Relocation Centers" in remote portions of the nation's interior.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066, which allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones", from which "any or all persons may be excluded." This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington, except for those in internment camps. In 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the exclusion, removal, and detention, arguing that it is permissible to curtail the civil rights of a racial group when there is a "pressing public necessity."

Some compensation for property losses was paid in 1948, but most internees were unable to fully recover their losses.In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government. The legislation stated that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership", and beginning in 1990, the government paid reparations to surviving internees.

Answer 4

Two things first. They were not Asian Americans. They were Japanese Americans. Secondly they were not INTERRED. INTERRED means being BURIED!

Many of those "relocated", a term used to mask what was done (we are good at making up new terms to cover our misdeeds) were U.S. Citizens. Their rights as U.S. citizens were obviously violated as stated in law and the Constitution. The non-citizens INTERNMENT(aliens) was not illegal or unconstitutional. It was not right but it was done. Chalk it up to war time hysteria by the the President, the public and the courts.The practice of detaining aliens was, and is, common around the world in time of War.

Answer 5

I think the worse part of the forced internment is the fact many lost their homes and never recovered it. And there is the fact many Japanese-Americans wanted to join the armed forces and support America. We as a nation are not as perfect as we would like the world to believe. We also did this to the native Americans. How many were forced out of their ancestral lands and forced to move to reservations? Some lost their lives on this walk, not just land. What about the African-Americans we forced them into slavery and beat them and took them away from their homes, their country. Our government has a history of forcing people to comply with what we decree. And all for the sake of convenience and personal gain.