The Problem Of Internment In Prisons

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As we look at all the issues surrounding Internment in 2017, There is the problem of preservation of American peace and security. And of ethical and moral locking or in-prison, a person based on race is the sorrowful issue we deal with on conscious level. But the next step of deeper thinking is that the political people will keep us focused on the issue of unconstitutionality and our fear of bombs in our city while they create laws and bar free enterprise form that minority group.
In California, in 1941 and 1942 many laws were passed just to keep white farmers in power in the agriculture industry, and the retail and manufacturers plants that were Japanese owned. These got sold for the penny of there worth enriching the pockets of the

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