mainland and the American government was worried that Americans of Japanese descent might aid the enemy. In respond to the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066, forcing many West Coast Japanese and Japanese Americans into internment camps. Fred Korematsu, a Japanese American, claimed to be Mexican-American to avoid being interned, but was later arrested and convicted of violating an executive order. More than two-thirds of those confined to internment camps were U.S. citizens. Korematsu challenged his conviction in the courts saying that Congress, the President, and the military authorities did not have the power to issue the relocation orders and that he was being discriminated against based on his race. The
mainland and the American government was worried that Americans of Japanese descent might aid the enemy. In respond to the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066, forcing many West Coast Japanese and Japanese Americans into internment camps. Fred Korematsu, a Japanese American, claimed to be Mexican-American to avoid being interned, but was later arrested and convicted of violating an executive order. More than two-thirds of those confined to internment camps were U.S. citizens. Korematsu challenged his conviction in the courts saying that Congress, the President, and the military authorities did not have the power to issue the relocation orders and that he was being discriminated against based on his race. The