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Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Japanese American Internment Camps and Executive Order 9066 Two months after the attack on America at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the then president of the US authorized exclusion of all Japanese-American citizens into internments camps through Executive Order 9066. This order was an authorization by Roosevelt to the secretary of war to declare specific areas as concentration camps for people considered as a threat to national security including Americans of Japanese, German and Italian origin (McMillion 4). The issuing of Executive Order 9066 by President Roosevelt was not morally justified since it was baseless and promoted discrimination against Japanese Americans The Executive order 9066 was not morally justified since it did have evidence basis. The government did not have evidence that Japanese-Americans aided their Japanese army in any way as spies of sending messaging during the Port Harbor attack. Instead, it assumed that Japanese-Americans were more likely to be loyal to Japanese government than that of American (McMillion 5), thus sabotaging national security. Also, it led to the disruption of the lives of the Japanese-American citizens. Many people left their homes, jobs, and their property and moved to concentration camps. Finally, the secretion of only Japanese people was a form of discrimination. Even though the government of US later revisited the issue and apologized, in 1988, the payments of $20,000 (McMillion 7) given to the victims was not enough. Their lives were disrupted (U.S. War Relocation Authority 00:11-00:16) for all wrong reasons leading to loss of property,