Zone1 When Japanese Americans fought in the 1980s for Reparations Black politicians and civil rights leaders fought with them

Nationwide, the National Archives has records from the War Relocation Authority for 109,384 Japanese Americans who were forcibly removed from their communities and taken to incarceration centers. Those imprisoned ended up losing between $2 billion and $5 billion worth of property in 2017 dollars during the war, according to the Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.

Since tens of thousands of Italians and Germans were interned by Churchill as enemy aliens in Britain, FDR's internment order was not irrational. But their financial losses were more damaging than the internment itself. Only a few families kept their homes and land thanks to their good white neighbors.

Lester Ouchida’s family was one of the fortunate ones. When they were forced to leave their Florin home when Ouchida was 5, they were able to keep their home with the help of a white neighbor, Mary McComber.

 
Since tens of thousands of Italians and Germans were interned by Churchill as enemy aliens in Britain, FDR's internment order was not irrational. But their financial losses were more damaging than the internment itself. Only a few families kept their homes and land thanks to their good white neighbors.



The difference was that the Germans and Italians were enemy aliens. Interning them was customary until they could be repatriated. If FDR had stuck to that standard I wouldn't have had a problem, especially since the Japanese refused any repatriation in either direction. But instead, FDR imprisoned AMERICAN CITIZENS of Japanese descent which was clearly illegal. I can understand imprisoning minor children citizens with their parents, but not adults.
 

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