Umm...After Pearl Harbor bombed, FDR "ordered" all American-Japanese send to like "prison". Do you think it is right or wrong? If you voted right to send the American Japanese to prison, please, explain why. If you voted wrong, please explain.

Wrong, it's been shown why in several documentaries.

i think it was right. it helped that Japanese some. there they learned English which helped them disperse from the big Japanese areas and go to other places. also, it helped to protect them from the wrath of other Americans when the public found out about the atrocities that the japanese commited to our service men and POWs. i wish taht there had been another way, but i think that it was still good to put them in the camps. the had adequate food and shelter. they were taken care of very well, unlike what the Japs (no offense intended) did to us.

It was a watertight way of solving a problem. Lock upeverybody that lookes like our enemy.... unfiortunatly, that didn't make 'm your enemies! And after the war, they weren't really welcome to re-socialise either. And what about the homes they used to live in? They lost almost everything there was to lose.... just because they looked like the enemy. I think it was a hysterical reaction and therefor wrong.

On one hand, it was right. It has been proven now that we can see both sides that there were Japanese plans to use people of Japanese descent as spies and saboteurs. Undoubtedly, by sending them all to concentration camps, acts of sabotage were prevented and valuable information was protected.

But was it right to send ALL people of Japanese descent to concentration camps? No.

I believe this problem should have been dealt with on a case by case basis, not a blanket solution like this. Yes, they caught some bad guys, but what about the thousands and thousands of innocent people who lost everything they had worked for? Was it really worth it?

In my mind, no.

If the internment had not taken place, we would never have had a unit like the 442nd Regimental Combat Group and the 100th Infantry Btn fighting for us. On the other hand, the same men would have volunteered if they had been given the chance because it was a way to prove their loyalty to America, which they did very well.

"As a military unit, their record in North Africa and Europe was extraordinary. After almost two years of fighting, the 100th/442nd emerged from the war the most highly decorated unit in U.S. military history.

They fought in seven major campaigns in Europe, made two beachhead assaults and captured a submarine. In France, they liberated Bruyeres, and rescued the ``Lost Battalion'' -- 275 Texas infantrymen who had been trapped inside German territory for almost a week.
In late spring of 1945, the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion -- part of the 442nd -- was among the first Allied units to liberate prisoners from Dachau. Days later, heading farther south through Germany, the 522nd helped save more than 5,000 Jewish prisoners from the Dachau sub-camps who had been on a forced march toward the Bavarian Alps.
The unit's valor earned more than 18,000 individual citations and eight Presidential Unit Citations. Known also as the ``Purple Heart Battalion,'' with more than 700 men killed and 9,500 Purple Hearts, they suffered the highest casualty rate in U.S. Army history.
Today, the veterans of the 442nd and the 100th are in their 70s and 80s, and among them is a growing sense of urgency to tell their stories before it is too late. "

http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/issei.html

No, it was wrong, they were innocent and they were American citizens.

I think it was right, better to be safe than sorry.

Rabs the principle can't be applied on such general terms though. You might meet a killer on the street so you kill everyone out there. Hey, better safe than sorry.

I know now with the benefit of hindsight it was morally wrong but I am being very honest when I try to put myself in the shoes of an American right after Pearl Harbour was bombed and the level of racism present as an acceptable aspect of being an American of the time and I would say YES to it.

It is a testament to the guiding principles of democracy in the US that they were only interred and not dealt with like the Jews of Germany or deported.

Like my grandfather explained a lot of "bad" things that happened during his lifetime... "We just didn't know better back then."

Now I will be very honest. I have had conversations with some people on this forum where I have said, and I truly believe, that if any country today is faced with open hostilities against the Chinese that country MUST for its own safety interr ALL Chinese within its borders. Reason being is apparent to many members of this forum. You have seen first hand that no matter where the Chinese go their primary loyalty remains to China. And second even if they do not wish to work on behalf of the Chinese government they can be easily coerced as their family members back in China are used as leverage.