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Unpaid Reparations
In 1942, during World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt signed “Executive Order 9066�, which allowed the military to deny due process to American citizens in the name of national defense. This order forced over 120,000 people of Japanese decent, most of which were American citizens, from their homes, jobs and sometimes families, into government controlled internment camps. Half of the “campers� were children who were treated no differently than hardened criminals, with facilities that were surrounded with barbed wire and armed guards. In the almost four years that these camps were in service, many Japanese Americans died due to inadequate medical care. Some even died at the hands of American soldiers who said that they resisted orders. With all of this one would believe that this had prevented the “horrible japanese spies� from completing their plans of “domestic espionage and sabotage� as was stated in Executive Order 9066. To this day......

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