Internment of Japanese Americans during WWII

Over 100,000 Japanese Americans were put into "internment camps" during WWII, a crucial yet often overlooked part of US history. We are joined by Madeleine Sugimoto, whose family was sent to Camp Jerome; this segment also features the paintings of her father, Henry Y. Sugimoto, documenting life inside the camps. From "The Broader Implications of War," a series directed and co-produced by Gloria Messer for the Manhattan Neighborhood Network. Host and co-producer: Heather Wokusch.

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[HeatherWokusch]

SgtToughLove, if that were the case, then laws and other safeguards protecting Japanese Americans could have been put in place instead. What happened was just plain wrong. In 1980, a congressional commission concluded, the internment was "unjust and motivated by racism rather than real military necessity."

[SgtToughLove]

This is absurd and very biased to what the real reason was for the camps, and your guest proves that when the Posters come out. After Pearl Harbor the realization, that another Country could attack American soil kicked in hard. Fear of an invasion from the West caused a severe unrest and untrust within the whole Nation of the Japanese Americans. Yes, these were crude camps, but they were also built very quickly. They were built for the Japanese to keep them safe from U.S. citizens.

[GaryCraig1]

Really scary. I heard they're building more of these prison campms nowadays