Korematsu V. United States Case Study

The Korematsu v. United States (1944) case was an unjustifiable case towards individuals with a particular race, but even though at the moment it seemed like the appropriate action to take for the protection of the people in our country, the action towards this race was completely inappropriate and unconstitutional. During the War of World War II, the president of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt put a float the Executive Order 9066 that targeted individuals from the Pacific Coast of Japanese ancestry both citizens and non-citizens. The order was to get any individual with in the area of the Pacific Coast to report to assembly centers where they were being detained until released by military authorities. Individuals with Japanese ancestry were being imprisoned without any evidence that they were a danger to the country and were deprived from their Constitutional rights. At first the first order was for any individual with Japanese ancestry to stay in their home with a curfew assigned to them, without
He was accused of violating the national Act of 1940 section 401 (j), which is a law specifically for American citizens that avoided being drafted to go to war, and have their nationality be taken away. This law took effect on 1944, but Mendoza-Martinez flee the country on 1942, when he purposely evaded being drafted he was not aware of the law because it wasn’t taken into action at the time but two years later. However, it seem unconstitutional to strip away a nationality to an individual, mainly since Mendoza- Martinez had already did the penance for avoiding the war. He did commit a crime that he needed to pay and he admitted his crime and agreed to the sentence and served it, but taking him into trial and removing his nationality for something he did when the act wasn’t taken into place is unconstitutional and