They were stripped of their civil rights, rounded up like animals, penned up for months in horse stables, and then shipped of to Topaz, a concentration camp in a desert in the middle of Utah. ~Patrick S. Hiyashi, Associate Vice Chancellor for Admissions and Enrollment at the University of California Berkeley
It was during World War II, when something horrible happened. America was on alert after a Japanese attack on the U.S. military base. This caused many to not trust the Japanese Americans, leading to the incarceration of many them. The Japanese Americans were then persecuted by means of an executive order from President Theodore Roosevelt, Executive Order 9066.
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