Originally Posted by Dean

It was racism, pure and simple. AFAIK, there were no spies or even very few Japanese sympathisers who were rounded up, and all of the Japanese who were in the US at the time were there by choice. If it was the right thing to do, how come the US and Canadian governments did not also round up all of the ethnic Germans and Austrians in North America? I think that the only result of this policy was to create Japanese sympathisers where there had previously been none. In addition, the units that were recurited from thesde camps were sent to fight the Germans. Apparently, they were one of the most decorated units in the US Army. I guess they had something to prove...

Dean.