Japanese Internment Camps

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o more than basic human necessities such as food and water and not much more.
The Wagner-Rogers bill would have admitted 20,000 additional Jewish refugee children under the age of 14 into the United States from Germany and Austria but one of the two lawmakers died in congress so the bill was never passed. 1939 a list of "dangerous" enemy aliens and citizens began to be put together in various government departments, such as the FBI, special intelligence agencies of the Justice Department, the Office of Naval Intelligence, and the army's Military Intelligence Division.
November 26, 1940 Jews in Warsaw Germany were forced into a ghetto enclosed by an 8-foot high wall. The German government denied that anti-Semitism was there motivation. This is one of the most influential parts of America’s involvement with World War II.
1940 the census found 126,947 Japanese Americans 62.7% were citizens by birth. In addition, 157,905 were in the Territory of Hawaii and 263 in the Territory of Alaska.
The Hawaiian National Guard made up largely of first generation Japanese was federalized and later became the 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
November 26, 1941 President Roosevelt's secretary Grace Tully told Henry Field an anthropologist and aide to Roosevelt that the President was ordering him to produce, in the shortest time possible, the full names and addresses of each American-born and foreign-born Japanese listed by area within each state. She told him to use the 1930 and 1940 census. December 7, 1941 Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. A blanket presidential warrant authorized U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle to have the FBI arrest a predetermined number of "dangerous enemy aliens," including German, Italian, and Japanese nationals. A total of 737 Japanese Americans were arrested by the end of the day. December 8, 1941the U.S. entered World War II.
After the attack on pearl harbor the government responded with...