Japanese Internment Letter

15554 Sherman Drive Hacienda Heights, CA 91745 August 3, 1942
President Franklin D. Roosevelt President of the United States of America 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Roosevelt: I am writing this letter to inform you of the need to release the Japanese Americans from the internment camps that you have put them in. You have deprived many young children to grow up in a normal community. When you issued all people who were a possible threat to the war effort to be excluded from the western states, you forced the Japanese Americans to be put in internment camps. Many of these Japanese Americans are citizens that were born in the United States of America. Most of the people that you have put into camps, such as Manzanar are Issei they have all lived in the states for many years. Some Japanese American have lived in America longer than American and yet they are prevented to by law from become a citizen, and from owning land. Some have to suffer from the separation of their families. The Issei that are living here, in America, came to America for a better chance of work. The Japanese Americans have come to love America and though they love Japan they are not the ones who are the enemies. Most Japanese Americans want the war to stop, so why would they be helping create more chaos if they want it all to end. In the camps people are lucky to be able to have barrack with people that they know. The living conditions are barely manageable. The space is highly limited and everything is crowded. The barracks are not put together very well there are gaps and knotholes all around.
Some people say that Japan was their first home, the home of their ancestors, making them loyal to their homeland. Yes, it was the home of their ancestors but, America has also become their home. Their homes and their memories are all here in America. The Issei had all started from scratch they built their lives in America. Why would they want to destroy it? The Nisei were born in the United State of America. They are citizens and you treat them as enemies locking them away from the outside world. How can you ask these people to take sides? You ask them to choose for their homeland or the land that they made their home.
In addition to making Japanese Americans live like animals the executive order that you signed also tears families apart. When people were taken away simply because they came from Japanese descendant they were taken from their families. No one deserves to have their father or brother or any one taken away from them. This is what you internment camps caused. The living conditions did not allow families to eat as families this due to the limited space. The camps caused people to slowly drift apart. The internment camps are meant to be holding enemies. So, why are you keeping innocent American citizens? Please allow them to live their life that they deserve to live. This separation from the world will only make other races resent the Japanese. This should not be your goal.
Thank you for having the time to read this letter. I would also like to thank you for giving the thought to let the Japanese Americans out of the internment camps. They are innocent people who need your attention Mr. President.
Sincerely,

Debroha