Japanese Internment Camps

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Japanese Internment

In 1912, Japanese Americans owned 12,726 acres of farmland in all of California.
In 1913 California’s Alien Land Law was passed the law prohibited all Asian immigrants from owning land or property, but permitted a three year leases and all such aliens were ineligible for U.S. citizenship. California’s Alien Land Law prohibited leasing land to Asian Americans towards the end of 1920. By 1925, it was also prohibited in most of the western half of the United States the states included; Washington, Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, Nebraska, Texas, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, New Mexico, Minnesota, and Missouri. During World War II, Utah, Wyoming, and Arkansas also joined.

1922, Several Law suits were placed against the government but all were won by our government in the Supreme Court, the court reaffirmed the law and agreed that no alien citizen should own land. On February 28, 1933 one day after the Reichstag fire in Germany, Adolf Hitler persuaded German President Hindenburg to sign Article 48, an "emergency" mandate authorizing Hitler to suspend civil rights, arrest, imprison, and execute suspicious persons such as; communists, socialists, and labor union leaders, and outlaw non-Nazi press. By March 20 Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, opened and in April of that same year all Jewish citizens of Germany were barred from German civil service. In July 1933, Hitler obtained the right to revoke German citizenship for persons considered a threat or "undesirable" to the government.

June of1935 the United States Congress passed an act making aliens citizens otherwise ineligible to citizenship eligible if they had served in the U.S. armed forces between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, and been honorably discharged, and they were permanent residents of the United States. September 15, 1935 Nuremberg Laws ended German citizenship for Jews. From this time on the Jews in Germany were limited severely to n...