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on February 19, 1942 (during World War II), by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, utilizing his authority as Commander in Chief to exercise war powers.
This order authorized military commanders to declare areas of the United States as military areas "from which any or all persons may be excluded." It was eventually applied to one-third of the land area of the U.S. and was used against those with "Foreign Enemy Ancestry" even though they were native-born U.S. citizens.
The Secretary of War was to assist those residents of such an area who were excluded with transportation, food, shelter, and other accommodations.
Though they are the best-known case, those of Japanese ancestry were not the only ones who received such treatment. Some ItalianThe Italians are a Latin ethnic group primarily associated with Italy and the Italian language. There are around 62 million autochthonous Italians in Italy, around 550,000 in Switzerland, as well as some smaller groups in Slovenia and Croatia. There is a-Americans and GermanThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east-Americans were also subjected to similar restrictions, including internment. See [1], [2], [3]
See Japanese American InternmentThe Japanese American internment refers to the exclusion and subsequent removal of approximately 112,000 to 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans, officially described as "persons of Japanese ancestry", 62% of whom were United States citizens, from the