Forcefully separating a family and sending them to camps on just a suspicion. Does that sound like what over one-hundred thousand Japanese Americans expected to encounter when doing nothing more than living their lives in a new country? It was a horrible and demoralizing thing that Japanese Americans went through during the early 1940’s when the United States government signed into action Executive Order 9066, authorizing the use of internment camps to hold Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan. These camps were all but constitutional and violated many of the rights the Founding Fathers put into place to protect the citizens from cruel acts like this, but Japanese Americans are not the only group to have experienced a massive rights violation. Look all the way back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in America at slavery when African Americans had just about every right stripped of them.
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“The worst memory is that you’re prisoners, and you can’t do anything about it” (Remembering Manzanar). While being interviewed, a Japanese American who went through an internment camp was saying they had their fifth amendment stripped from them. The fifth amendment guarantees your right to the due process of law which means you will get a trial before being put in prison, but Japanese Americans were sentenced to an undefined amount of time in something that can be described as, “In no sense a concentration camp” (Remembering Manzanar). “They gave me a small green card granting permission to leave Manzanar” (Remembering Manzanar). There are several problems with this. For one, you are making your own citizens feel like they do not belong in the country they have citizenship to. After that proceeding to pressure these people into breaking allegiance to Japan and swearing all allegiance to
“The worst memory is that you’re prisoners, and you can’t do anything about it” (Remembering Manzanar). While being interviewed, a Japanese American who went through an internment camp was saying they had their fifth amendment stripped from them. The fifth amendment guarantees your right to the due process of law which means you will get a trial before being put in prison, but Japanese Americans were sentenced to an undefined amount of time in something that can be described as, “In no sense a concentration camp” (Remembering Manzanar). “They gave me a small green card granting permission to leave Manzanar” (Remembering Manzanar). There are several problems with this. For one, you are making your own citizens feel like they do not belong in the country they have citizenship to. After that proceeding to pressure these people into breaking allegiance to Japan and swearing all allegiance to