There was a naval base in Honolulu Hawaii called Pearl Harbour. This naval base had many ships such as aircraft carriers, battleships, and many other ships that the military used. The base mostly used as a fueling station so the ships can make it to Asia. They needed the fueling station so they could get to Asia and trade with other surrounding countries. On December 7, 1941, Japan sent a surprise attack on the base to destroy the ships to take over land in the Oceania and Southeastern China region. The attack had a huge number of casualties such as 2,400 Americans had lost their lives that day and another 1,000+ were injured. The Japanese didn’t do much as somehow the navy managed to bring some ships above the water again and this event officially got America into WW2. In response, America had put people of Japanese descent into little camps. In my opinion, I thought it was unconstitutional to put people in these camps with concern for their safety. …show more content…
I think it was unconstitutional since most of them were citizens of America so it was unjust to lock them up. As it says in Document 4 “Where then, did the Federal Government get its legal authority to uproot a whole people and transplant them.” As it says in the quote the government shouldn’t lock people up for concern for their safety. Instead what they should do is have the police do their absolute best to keep control and be on the side of the Japanese. They came to America to be free and not censored and then we lock them up like the Germans were doing to the Jews is not right. Even though we weren’t murdering them we took their liberty away from them and we are the land of the free which is why it was