Tobi ﾄﾋﾞ’s Reviews > Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II > Status Update

“The reasons for the establishment of these concentration camps are clear. A deteriorating military situation created the opportunity for American racists to get their views accepted by the national leadership. The Constitution was treated as a scrap of paper not only by McCloy, Stimson, and Roosevelt but also by the entire Congress, which approved and implemented everything done to the Japanese Americans.”