When people think of World War II, they automatically think of the Holocaust, but at the same time citizens in America were being forced into labor camps for their race as well. During World War II, the internment of Japanese-Americans was a little known event. Japanese-Americans are residents of the United States, but they trace their ancestry back to Japan. Japanese-Americans make up the third largest group of Asian-Americans. Today, approximately 7,000 Japanese immigrants enter into the U.S. annually. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, it was not soon there after that the U.S. took action. They forced innocent people to be relocated from their homes and placed in an internment camp, simply because they were considered potential enemies due to their nationality.

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It allowed military leaders to exclude whomever they felt necessary from military...