![]() ![]() The Court stated that a citizen could NOT be imprisoned if the government failed to prove that they were disloyal. Then, on the exact same day, the same US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Mitusye Endo! They said this was a different matter. So, the US government had the authority to deprive US citizens of their fifth amendment rights, confiscate their property without remuneration, and incarcerate them without a trial. ![]() Supreme Court ruled against Fred Korematsu, stating that the exclusion order was not discriminatory (since German Americans and Italian Americans were incarcerated also), and that the entire executive order was indeed constitutional. (By this time the war had decisively turned against Japan.) Astoundingly, the US She was actually selected as a test case by civil rights attorney Saburo Kido of the Japanese American Citizens League because she was “Nisei” (second generation), a practicing Christian, spoke only English, had never been to Japan, and whose brother was serving in the US Army.īoth Korematsu and Endo had their cases worked up the courts, finally arriving at the US Supreme Court in the fall of 1944. Mitsuye was a 22 year old young woman who was fired from her job in the Department of Motor Vehicles in Sacramento. Fred was a 23 year old young man from San Leandro California who refused to leave his home in the exclusion zone. Two of the more famous ones were Fred Korematsu and Mitsuye Endo. ![]() However, several US citizens who believed that their incarceration was a violation of the US Constitution took their case to court. So now the order was all legal and 120,000 Japanese Americans were packed off to internment camps surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards. On March 21st, 1942 Congress enacted legislation giving authority to the President to enforce his decree. On FebruPresident Franklin Roosevelt issued his infamous Executive Order 9066 consigning all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to internment camps deep in the interior of the US. ![]()
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