Pros And Cons Of Japanese Internment Camps

Japanese internment camps.
Justice Hugo Black stated that although the exclusion order imposed hardships upon a large number of Japanese-American citizens, hardships are part of war. Justice Black goes on to say that the curtail of the civil rights of a single racial group should immediately be suspect and be looked into (Korematsu v. United States 323 U.S. 214).That courts should subject any law that infringes on the civil rights of a racial group should be looked under the most scrutiny like as if they were looking at it threw a micro scope. Justice Black also goes on to say that when under the conditions of warfare and our shores are threatened by hostile forces, the power to protect them must be commensurate with the threatened danger. (Korematsu v. United States 323 U.S. 214). The danger the United States were under, were that the Japanese Americans possibly spying for the Japanese Empire, gathering intelligence and photos of strategic places in the United States. Justice Black says that Korematsu was not excluded from the Military Area because of hostility to him or his race, but because we are at war with the Japanese Empire. (Korematsu v. United States 323 U.S. 214). Justice Frank Murphy argued that the exclusion at issue here goes over the brink of
For one the Japanese Empire did have contacts in the United States before the attack on Pearl Harbor, in which the contacts were able to fly over Pearl Harbor gather Intel and proceed to give it to the Japanese Empire. So it would be easier to gather all of them up to have a closer eye in what they do so something like that don’t happen like that again. So in regards to Justice Black that’s where I think he’s right in making that decision. But on the other hand I can see where Justice Murphy makes a point as well by say that they are American citizens and they should be treated like one no matter there racial