Total Mass Relocation Pros And Cons

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Look around you. The people who surround you and fill you with happiness, the plants that make you feel at peace when they sway, and the home in which provides you a warm environment filled with so many memories. Now imagine that being stripped away from you because of your race. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066, that set the internment and exclusion of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast, in motion. This total mass relocation was an unnecessary act that didn’t need to be taken and I completely disagree with this act. Despite having other horrible situations occur with different races, no measure was taken for other threats that were posed. According to the article we had used

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