Scholars consider Japanese internment to be the foremost example of alien citizenship in American history and the most extreme example of the construction of the illegal alien (Wheelock 241). During internment, both Japanese men and women encountered harsh racism and harrowing family strain as a result of the forced uprooting of all Japanese and Japanese Americans from their homes by the U.S. government. President Franklin D. Roosevelt swiftly passed Executive Order 9066 immediately after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. Assessing the legality of this government requires proof that the Japanese living on the West Coast presented a “ Continue reading...