During 1942, the United States government decided to relocate all Japanese American citizens and relocate them to an internment camp. The U.S. began to worry about America’s safety and security. During the war, many decisions were made, however, the U.S. never realized what this would do to the lives of the Japanese people. Interning the Japanese American citizens put their lives through much different and much more difficult ways of living. The Japanese relocation greatly affected the lives of Japanese American citizens in a negative way.
In 1942, The U.S. government began relocating approximately one-hundred twenty-two thousand Japanese-American citizens into internment camps. Doing this cut the Japanese American citizen's jobs, let alone …show more content…
“The petitioner, an American citizen of Japanese descent, was convicted in a federal district court for remaining in San Leandro, California.” This quote shows how Korematsu was getting removed from his home and how he probably did not want to leave. Many argued for Korematsu on why forcing him out of his own home was bad and unruly. Unfortunately, Korematsu lost the case and was removed from his home. This was entirely unnecessary and unruly because Korematsu was a normal Japanese American citizen with his own liberty and rights. He wanted to stay in his own home and didn’t want to leave when the warnings of relocation were sent out. But still… Korematsu should not have been pulled from his home, for he had done nothing wrong.
The U.S. government chose to follow through with this task as protection to the United States. They thought that even though they are born here, they are still with Japan, as a threat. Why though would you do this to very innocent people? What if they had lost jobs and homes, would they have like it… probably not! This was not the correct way to handle their situation and I think they should have tackled it in a much better