Panic and fear of a Japanese invasion led to the rounding up and internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII per Executive Order 9066. This woman’s body language in Redondo Beach seems to show some panic and fear as well. Both Canada and Mexico followed suit shortly thereafter.
This shot of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Dillon S. Myer, director of the War Relocation Authority, seems to imply no resentment on the part of those who were relocated to Gila River Relocation Center in Rivers, Arizona. Can we leave soon please?
Per http://www.history.com, about 117,000 people were affected by relocation, with a total of 10 housing camps. Two were located on Indian reservations, despite the protests of tribal councils, who were overruled by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Snap.
Army-directed evacuations began on March 24. People had six days notice to dispose of their belongings other than what they could carry.
Anyone who was at least 1/16th Japanese was evacuated, including 17,000 children under 10, as well as several thousand elderly and handicapped.
These folks are smiling at Santa Anita, but the crowded conditions betray them. Although they were not met with the horror and atrocity of concentration camps, a cage is still a cage is still a cage, especially since most of the people were American citizens.
The last Japanese internment camp closed in March 1946.
I Don't Get It 
That was wrong. That was just one violation of the Constitution. The treatment of the Indians was another.
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Indeed. I always try to understand history in its proper context, not as it relates to today, and I understand where the gov’t was coming from. But yeah, totally wrong.
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History repeating itself. Thousands currently detained.
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I was thinking the same thing, as far as people being detained now.
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Where are American citizens being unlawfully detained in the US?
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You’re right. Not American citizens. Illegal aliens.
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Charles Blow of NY Times talked about it. Must try to stop this hatred.
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😦 Heartbreaking.
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As you probably imagined, the subject of the Japanese internment camps is a topic with which we are passing familiar because of, well. the Alpha Japanese Female. When we lived in Utah we visited most of the sites in the Western States and since then have been to more. I wrote a little bit about that way back in 2014. If you want, you could use the search tool on Max’s blog and just enter “Manzanar” to get the post. It’s a pretty good complement to your photos. (The post also features Pearl Harbor – the interment camp stuff is at the end.)
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Yes, I figured you would have some insight to share. I’ll check it out, if I haven’t already. I can’t remember 2014.
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