The U.S. orchestrated the racially motivated detention of 120,000 Japanese-Americans, of which almost two thirds were U.S. citizens.
Eighty years ago today, former President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which led to the arbitrary incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans in makeshift detention camps, throwing the lives of thousands into disarray.."Executive Order 9066 is the worst thing that could have happened to Japanese Americans."
Although Roosevelt's order did not target a specific ethnic group, the Japanese American community quickly came to be its primary victim. On March 18, 1942, Roosevelt created the War Relocation Authority . It was introduced to"take all people of Japanese descent into custody, surround them with troops, prevent them from buying land, and return them to their former homes at the close of the war."
Baggage belonging to Japanese-Americans piled in the Salinas, California, reception center. Japanese-Americans were evacuated from certain West Coast areas under US Army War Emergency Order.This allowed for the forced evacuation of all the Japanese Americans who were trapped in their military areas, unable to leave in time. The WRA rounded up and forcibly removed hundreds of thousands of Japanese American citizens from their homes, upending their lives.
"A lot of historians today would say that at the time it was often seen as this great mistake that was made by the US government, but it was less of a mistake and was instead a continuation of general, anti-Asian sentiment that goes back for many decades," Brian Niiya, content director at Densho–a non-profit dedicated to preserving the memory of the incarceration–toldThe WRA first sent the detainees to temporary 'assembly centers', some of which were held in livestock barns...
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