Removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans in WWII?

Question

Was the U.S.Supreme Court correct in ruling that it was constitutional to use race as a factor in the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II?

Evidence from what certain articles of the constitution would be very helpful!

Please help!

Thorough answers will get lots of points.

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Answer 1

In my opinion, the Supreme Court ruled incorrectly. The 14th Amendment grants all citizens, regardless of race, equal protection under the law. The 5th Amendment states that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of the law; there has to be a legitimate reason for interning the Japanese-Americans. The 6th Amendment guarentees the right to a fair trial before anyone is incarserated.

The only way the Supreme Court could have justified the internment was to state the the Japanese-Americans represented a "clear and present" danger to the nation.

BTW. Contrary to popular belief, recent German and Italian immigrants were also placed in internment camps during the Second World War.

Answer 2

Weird but true - - - Governments even the US Government often use the 'Law' as a weapon for hatred & predujice. Ask any German if what was done during World War Two was wrong and they will hedge and state that under existing laws 'no' or rather 'nein.' The US Supreme Court was merely 'o-k' ing what others had already decided.
And guess what gets ignored?
Money.

Leading Southern Californians and others wanted to intern the Japanesse in order to seize their businesses & farms & wealth. They had friends in Washingtion DC and in the Military and on the Supreme Court. Any ruling that cites race as a reason for committing an evil is wrong. Much as the Dred Scott ruling was racially biased so was the ruling regarding the Japanesse removal & internment.

I will note cite the Constitution because what are words when any well trained lawyer can argue them to support every viewpoint. The same groups who can find constitutional reasons to jail a mother for the death of an unborn fetus can find constittional reasons to lock an Afghan shepherd in a cell on an off shore island whrere he is subjected to anal rape & waterboarding. SO what use is the Constitution?

(And PS The 14th was a flawed Amendment which was why there had to be a 15th and even that was 'botched' see Eric Forner's 'Reconstruction; 1863 - 1877 Americas Unfinnished Revolution)
(Also see Goerge Takei's autobiography especially his experiences in an internment camp)

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Answer 3

The exclusion and incarceration of Japanese Americans began in March 1942 with Roosevelt's creation of The War Relocation Authority, or WRA. During the first phase, internees were transported on trains and busses under military guard to the 12hastily prepared temporary detention centers in California and one in Oregon. At these facilities detainees were house in livestock stalls or crowded, windowless shacks that lacked electricity or even basic sanitation facilities. Food was in short supply.



The second phase began midsummer and involved moving approximately 500 deportees daily from the temporary detention centers to permanent camps surrounded with barbed wire and guard towers. Guards were instructed to shoot anyone attempting to leave. These camps were located in remote, uninhabitable areas.