Internment Policy News Today

He was fiercely opposed to internment. he thought it was wrong. he fought it. his case went all the way to the supreme court, and fred korematsu in the sup court lost. they cited real military dangers presented by the government to justify the internment policy. what peter irons later discovered in those dusty boxes of government documents years later is that there was no such clear determination of military dangers that justified locking up all japanese americans. the justice department, in fac...

Koramatsu in the supreme court lost. they cited real military dangers presented by the government to justify the internment policy. what peter irons later discovered in those dusty boxes of government documents years later is that there was no such clear determination of military dangers that justified locking up all japanese americans. the justice department, in fact, at the time had all sorts of contrary evidence. they had all these internal reports. they had intelligence documents. they had f...