Japanese Internment Camps Case Study

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There was 2 cases that was brought up by Hirabayashi (1943) and Korematsu (1944), they said that the fifth amendment was violated by the U.S government because of their Japanese ancestry. The Supreme Court favored the U.S Government in both cases. (Siasoco, Ricco Villanueva, and Shmuel Ross. "Japanese Relocation Centers." Infoplease. Infoplease, n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2016.) By 1944 after two and half years of the camps President Franklin Roosevelt removed the Executive order and closed the camps. The very last internment camp was closed in 1945. The Japanese-Americans couldn’t move back to the West Coast until March of 1946. There was about 5,766 Japanese-Americans who renounced their citizenship because they were forced to live in the Internment Camps. (Siasoco, Ricco Villanueva, and Shmuel Ross. "Japanese Relocation Centers." Infoplease. Infoplease, n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2016.) …show more content…
Here is a quote from the personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians “ In the detention centers, families lived in substandard housing, had inadequate nutrition and health care, and had their livelihoods destroyed: psychologically long after their release”. ("Internment History." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2016.) Many of the Japanese-Americans wanted to forget camp life but it was difficult for them because they had to start all over with there lives. They lost businesses, housing and etc everything that they gained in their lives was lost when they were sent to the internment