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> So if you ask me, if there was a large security threat in the United States or Canada for example or any allied nation regarding spies from lets say the CCP, I believe they should absolutely be investigated and potentially put into secure camps regarding national security of a country.

Were the people imprisoned there actually a security threat? Were they investigated? Was it before or after they were interred?

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There were thousands imprisoned and it is likely that a few were—amongst so many people, there are bound to be one or two.

However, the vast majority of them were not security threats. The vast majority were patriotic, good citizens, abruptly ordered from their homes and businesses without recourse or future justice. A travesty of American values.

Some young men interred left the camps to fight for the US and returned and were interred again.

Link?

Would love to hear their stories, wow.

Here are a few.

https://www.history.com/news/442nd-regiment-combat-japanese-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-American_service_in...

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/442nd-regimen...

If you get a chance to visit one of these camps, it is worth it. Very sobering.

Recommend reading about the Japanese American combat battalion. One of the most decorated units in the history of the US military (including 4,000 purple hearts), and earned while many of their families were unjustly detained in US internment camps.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Infantry_Regiment_(Uni...

I'm no historian expert, but at the time the world was in the middle of World War II and on Sunday, December 7, 1941 there was an event maybe you have heard of called "Pearl Harbor"?

Executive Order 9066 (This post and re: the camps) was signed February 19, 1942.

Every action has a reaction, especially in times of war, no?

And in this case that action was arresting thousands of Americans with no charge, seizing their assets, and then acting like it was necessary.

There was no similar incarceration of German and Italian Americans during WW2. There was no internment of Russian Americans during the Cold War.

This obsession that people have in pretending this was not entirely based on race is getting old.

Asian would be a race, "Japanese" in that case is a nationality - no?

"There was no internment of Russian Americans during the Cold War." -- Last I recall, during the cold war there wasn't thousands of suicide Kamakazee pilots flying planes into a US Navy base and destroying US war ships(Pearl Harbor)?

Japanese didn’t use Kamikaze pilots until much later in the war and were out of resources. They suffered almost no casualties during Pearl Harbor.

Their nationality was American.

Also "asian" isn't a race

> Every action has a reaction, especially in times of war, no?

Yep, but they’re a lot more effective when directed at the enemy, not at your own citizens.

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