Were Japanese internment camps racist?

This is a response to “Was the relocation of West Coast Japanese racist? ... They were forced into concentration camps and denied their civil rights. ... administration in 2011, the Department of Justice filed an official notice stating that the Solicitor General's defense of the internment policy was in error. read more

Racist - no (other Asian groups, such as Chinese who were allies, were not interred), based on nationality - yes. Germans were interred during both WWI and WWII. Italians were interred in WWII, along with Germans and Japanese. read more

Immigration, Racism and the Internment of Japanese Americans By John W. Traphagan On February 19, 1942, then President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the U.S. government to forcibly remove thousands of American citizens who lived on the Pacific Coast and relocate them to concentration camps located inland in remote parts of Arizona, California, Idaho, and other states in the West. read more