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voshon Platt Internment Camp
Voshon Miller

5-14-15

Period 5

During the 1940s the United States Imprisoned many Japanese Americans in internment camps due to the then ongoing World War II, with them fighting Germany, Italy, and Japan,
The putting of the Japanese Americans in these camps due to their background was a horrible mistake for the U.S to do. The reasons why I disagree to the U.S doing this because, the United
States broke many of their rights as U.S citizens like their right of freedom from vacant searches, freedom of speech, freedom of press, and right to equal protection under the laws were all broken by the United States, and their treatment in the camps were and quote “similar” to the Jews treatment in the Concentration camps.
The United States was not justified in placing Japanese­Americans in internment camps because they didn’t have a valid reason to place them in the treatment camps. To most a legal
United States citizen have their rights like freedom from vacant searches, freedom of voicing, and the right to equal protection under the laws that are obligated to every citizen were broken.
Some examples of the laws and indecent acts that were broken were, forcing the
Japanese­Americans into the internment camps giving up all of their rights of freedom including their homes properties and were left nothing that would relate them to the U.S. Also the government didn’t give the Japanese­Americans any decision on whether they wanted to leave and go to the camps or stay this means that the U.S took away their right of freedom of speech.
Their freedom to press was broken too due to the U.S not giving them a chance to speak to give their view about being forced into the internment camps. And the last reason on why the United
States was not justified in placing the Japanese­Americans in internment camps is because; their obligation to equal protection under the law of all U.S citizens were all broken due to the fact that the United States was afraid of the

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