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The Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order that signed and also issued during World War II by the

Executive Order 9066 has been determined unconstitutional. It was unconstitutional because it went against the laws stated in amendments. Executive order 9066 breaks the rights of amendments 2,4,5,6,7, and 8. Executive Order 9066 was when the Japanese Americans were ordered to go internment camps. During this time, the Japanese often worked and labored. Also, white children were separated from the Japanese Americans, in schools. This was signed in 1942, during WWII.

In Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, he states that in times of war, protection against “espionage and against sabotage” is needed for the safety of the populus(Document E). The intended audience of this order is to the general American public and to the different military commander who will use this new law how they may. This quotation, coming directly from the order, shows that it was for a security purpose. If this measure was not taken and thousands of Americans died because of it, there would be a massive uproar complaining about not taking all of the relevant steps to put the country’s citizens out of harm’s

Executive order 9066 was a command issued by president Franklin Roosevelt that allowed the U.S. military to move all japenese-americans from the west coast to any area approved within the borders of America. The order was put into place on February 19, 1942, which was two months after the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor. After the attack the military and political collegues of Roosevelt were pressuring him into drafting and signing the order. FDR had involvment in every step in the order, but it is believed that the he made this action because of recent pressure to respond to Japan after the attack. He mostly left it to the military, which shows he might not have felt personally responsible for the migration of japenese-americans.

I do not think President Roosevelt was justified when ordering Executive Order 9066 because, most Japanese Americans were law-abiding citizens who loved their country. The government believed Japanese Americans to be a threat to society and that they would do what was necessary to protect the people of the United States. So if it meant locking up all Japanese to protect the American people it was a must.

They were unsure if Nisei’s were loyal, they accused them without any evidence. Americans fought that Japanese Americans were helping Japan with war. It was all based on hysteria and fear more than safety (Personal Justice denied 5). “Widespread ignorance of Japanese Americans contributed to a policy conceived in haste and executed in an atmosphere of fear and anger at Japan”(Personal Justice Denied 5). This statement was published on February 24, 1983. It is stating that They are being taken out of their homes and being placed in concentration camps because of fear and anger. The president passed the executive order 9066, because he was frightened himself. He didn't care to look for evidence that could have freed millions of suffering families. He evacuated families running down the West Coast: Washington Oregon,California and Southern Arizona (DeWitt 1). “The evacuation was impelled by military necessity”(DeWitt 1). It was forced by the military, they decided it was a requirement. They didn’t use evidence to prove that the West Coast was going to be attacked, they simply assumed (DeWitt 1). No one should be taken out of there home without evidence, that is

United States focused primarily on the curfew that resulted from Executive Order 9066. Hirabayashi argued that “the military orders were based upon racial prejudice and violated the protection the Constitution affords to all citizens” (828 F. 2d 591). The United States Supreme Court ruled against his case, saying “An appropriate exercise of the war power is not rendered invalid by the fact that it restricts the liberty of citizens” (Hirabayashi v. United State). As a result, Hirabayashi was convicted for disobeying military restrictions. The restriction of citizens’ rights is not a matter to be taken lightly; no circumstances excuse the illegality of any governmental action. As we struggle to find a way of preventing terrorist attacks today, we must always recognize that the government may take action against its own citizens when the situation becomes dire. Even though Hirabayashi’s conviction was later vacated, his petition was dismissed instead of investigating the transgressions of the government (Bannai 46). Everyone is guaranteed the same freedoms as their fellow citizens. We cannot discriminate against a group of U.S. citizens. When rights are taken away, or even limited, by the government, it is a violation of the United States Constitution and a reform is

The problem rose to a racial level. This was the other reason for internment. According to “The Crisis”, The Germans and Italians on the east coast were a threat to America's security. The American government has not imposed any mandatory restrictions on them. It was hard not to associate that skin color was the reason for double standards. Korematsu was a Japanese- American who struggled for interned people’s legal rights. According to congress’s court ruling towards him, they believed that segregation in the special period of war was to ensure the power to protect must be commensurate with the threatened danger. If Americans differentiate between civic safety and the actual military threat, civic rights would have the same duty to protect all citizens from harm rather than be treated differently because of different races. At least, many Japanese-American expressed their patriotic feeling to the U.S. They should not seem as a group of

So began the unfortunate time period of deliberate and straight forward persecution of the Japanese in America. During World War II, the great freedom touting United States of America practiced inexplicable discrimination against its own citizens, eliminating the freedom of all Japanese and Japanese Americans by placing them in constricted internment camps. Fear and hysteria cannot be permitted to cloud the judgment of individuals or a nation to such an extent as to remove the fundamental freedoms of human beings because of race, religion, or ethnicity

The Travel Ban marks a major turning point in the policies on immigration in the United States. Due to increased terrorist attacks and illegal immigrant numbers rising, it is believed that temporarily banning immigrants from particular countries is key to ensuring safety within the United States. Though many have expressed their concern towards the ban because of its similarity to previous discriminatory and unconstitutional acts. The ban has even been referred to as the “Muslim Ban”.

After the first week of Donald Trump’s presidency many changes have been occurring in the country. A continuous stream of executive orders signed by the President are causing extreme controversy. Executive Order: Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into The United States, the more moderate version of the “Muslim ban” that President Trump called for during his campaign was signed on Friday. Some people who were still in the air when Trump signed the order were detained or sent back to where they flew in from when they landed. This led to people being detained in airports sparking numerous protests at airports across the country, calling the order unconstitutional. On Saturday, a federal judge temporarily stayed the order, stopping people from being detained and deported from the country.

government. Due to the pressure and the state of panic from state leaders, President Roosevelt, signed the Executive order 9066 on February 19, 1942. The Executive order resulted in the forceful internment of about 110,000 individuals of Japanese descent. When the government gave the internment order, they rounded up and imprisoned the Japanese. In 1942, 110,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast of the United States were moved to ten internment camps. In excess of two thirds of the Japanese American who were forced into internment camps, had never shown any form of betrayal and most were citizens of the United States. The Japanese were mandated to abandon their homes and also leave their jobs. In some cases families were torn apart, put into different camps and left wondering when they might see each other

“On January 27th, Trump signed an executive order temporarily banning travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States” (Wulfsohn). This ban did not just stop those from Islamic countries from coming to the United States for the first time in their life, it also revoked the visas from 60,000 people who had been US citizens. This is where most people see a major issue with the travel ban. While most will argue that the ban is in the interest of national security, the argument is that those 60,000 people that used to live in America, those who were born here, have families here, grew up here, are now not allowed back because they simply left the country.

@Billy Bauer What I am saying is that Draconian Law making is nothing short of one party rule. When a President seeks guidance how to legally ban travel of even US born and naturalized citizens it is a violation of civil rights. Likewise we could almost compare this to a hate crime as the ban is not only based on wear your from, but also on religious preference and ethnicity. As we reflect we must remember it was President Roosevelt who authorized a similar ban, deportation and incarceration by abusing his Presidential authority to issue and Executive Order in 1942 that changed the lives of many Japanese Americans.

On Facebook, I sought out opinions on this social justice issue by searching through public postings for the hashtags #travelban, #muslimban, #nobannowall, #refugees, #Americafirst, and #buildthewall. The vast majority of views presented by those using these hashtags were against the ban. One common theme held by those against the ban is that it was discriminatory. By adding Venezuela and North Korea to the list, the social media opinion is that Trump is trying to distract from it being a racist ban targeting Muslims. For example, Aram Shahinfard (2017) states in his Facebook update, “So he added a few more countries to make it a not-muslim ban? It is still not acceptable!” His Facebook friend,