Children in Japanese American Confinement Camps

Children in Japanese American Confinement Camps — page 3
But most of the Issei’s children called the Nisei were born on US soil This made them US citizens After the attack many people in the United States accused Japanese Americans of siding with Japan In February (cid:157) (cid:143) US President Franklin D Roosevelt signed Executive Order (cid:144)œœ This order allowed the US military to move Japanese Americans who were living on the West Coast Any Japanese American in the exclusionary area would be forced to move to prison-like camps The government called them internment camps Internment is a process in which a country at war arrests and imprisons noncitizen enemies However the (cid:157)(cid:143)(cid:144),(cid:144)(cid:144)(cid:144) Japanese Americans forcibly removed from the West Coast were not arrested In this case the term internment is incorrect Instead many historians use terms 6