Why Is Japanese Internment Justified

It's 1941 one of the United States naval base has been bombed it has killed hundreds of innocent lives. Now imagine being accused of all those deaths. That’s what Japanese Americans were facing at the time. They were being accused of something they didn’t do, but for something their country did. For this reason Japanese Americans were put in internment camps. Internment camps were camps set up by the government to put all the people of Japanese ancestry. The U.S. took 115,000 Japanese Americans into these highly secured camps. These camps, forced people to leave their homes and be placed under surveillance. Japanese Americans were placed in camps for three main reasons. First reason was for their race. Second reason was fear from espionage. Third, the US put the Japanese Americans in camps out of fear. So was the internment of Japanese Americans, during the war justified? Throughout the internment of Japanese Americans people were being judged for more than just their actions. Japanese people were being judged for their race. Japanese Americans were judged due to the attack on People Harbor. People thought that Executive Order 9066 wasn’t driven just by merely military conditions. …show more content…
Imagine being one of these many people. Imagine being in your home, where you live, where you were raised. Then having that taken away from you. To have people that you know and love discriminate you just for your race. Just because what people from your country of origin did. The US had a right to protect their country. To have ways to protect themselves from other attacks. But to go so far to take people out of their homes because of fear. The Us government had made a mistake when they put Japanese Americans in internment camps. To put them in camps for their race, espionage, and because they did it in fear. That’s where the US should have figured out that the internment of Japanese Americans was