Japanese Internment CampsTen weeks after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the withdrawal of all person from military areas “as deemed necessary or desirable” (FDR). The West Coast was home to the majority of Japanese Americans and was considered a military zone. More than 100,000 Japanese Americans were sent to and transferred to internment camps built by the United States. Of the interned Japanese, 62 percent were Nisei (American-born, second generation) or Sansei (third generation Japanese), the remainder being Issai Japanese immigrants. Japanese Americans were by far the hardest hit. The Japanese internment camps were wrong because the Japanese were accused of espionage, it was racism, and it was a violation of the constitutional laws of the United States. One of the reasons the Japanese were sent to camps was because President FDR had issued Executive Order 9066. He believed this would prevent the J...