The government was able to find and round up most Japanese Americans during WW2...?
*sigh*
The world sure was different back then before political correctness kicked in.
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if you recall, bush did do this, except he did it to Arabs after september 11. he rounded up over a thousand muslims and suspended habeus corpus. it basically is the same thing as the internment of the japanese, so we know he can do it, but i dont think hell use it because he is taking away from large corporations who need low end labor.
Maybe because they were CITIZENS who weren't hiding since they were in their own dang country?
They can do it any time they want but why would they want to. They just keep us arguing while they pad their pockets with raises and pork. The war in Iraq is on the back burner while we argue as well. The gov. Both Dem's and Republicans are great at misdirection.
Ahh yes and america issued an apology and paid reparations to japanese americans.
Some people are so arrogant to think that you can look at someone and make a choice about if you can persecute them or not.
How can you look at someone and know if they are illegal? If you cant look, then how can you find out without violating the rights of ordinary americans.
America is supposed to have certain guanteed right to the individual you know.
By the way, those japanese american had their rights violated, something that you probably cant even imagine happening to you.
Schaz has the right of it. The Nisei were in the country legally either as Citizens or Registered Aliens and their law abiding cultural values made it easy to round them up. The govt wasn'r looking for illegals. They just took them all.
Also, there were only about a hundred thousand of them at the time, not 12 million illegals and another 40 million legals and citizens. Can you tell a Mexican from a Puerto Rican? I can most of the time, but I've lived in cities most of my life.
They didn't get them all, even back then. There was a Nisei family here in Chicago named Ohara. When they got word of the roundup, they put an apostrophe in their name. They were well liked in the neighborhood, so nobody bothered to turn the "O'Hara's" in.
If you knew anything about history, you would know that those Japanese "rounded up" were mostly American citizens. Most were born here - some naturalized.
If you think that is justice, you are one sick puppy - and you know nothing about human or civil rights.
Well first of all because the rules of the hunt are different.
First of all during WW2 the only criteria that needed to be met was as long as someone was japanese- boom, they were on the first train to Manzanar. Forget if they were citizens, or if they had businesses for family- it was based on a stupid paranoia and stereotype that since the Japanese attacked us THEN All japanese people had to be contained. Of course it's totally illogical and was probably the way many government officials express their racism.
However it is harder to do that with immigrants first of all because while you can tell ( or guess) someone's ethnicity by looking at them, you can't tell someone's status as a resident. I mean you can't round up all the Latin American's and kick them out, because the majority would actually be citizens. So it would take more time and energy and money to investigate them which we are sometimes in short supply of.
Also keep in mind that one of the reasons that illegal immigrants are here are actually because many AMERICAN employers purposely recruit, import, employ and HIDE their workers if they are illegal.
Therefore, the best solution would be to strengthen our borders and also hire more Border Patrol agents to secure and supervise our borders.
And in regards to your " political correctness"- it's not about being "Politically correct" - it is about being fair and somewhat decent to people that are citizens and work to better their community and country- There were many Japanese people WHO WERE citizens and their constitutional rights were totally overridden- To punish a group of people that were innocent for just a few bad eggs is illogical, wrong and just a show of how stupid the government can be to not contain the capacity to create better solutions- so going back to the whole " ROUND em' up" technique wouldn't work.
That's the point, the world, the US, were different back then. It's not the same now, we don't put people in concentration camps, we don't round up millions of people. And I doubt there were at least a million Japanese back then in the US.
So before you open you pie-hole, learn something and don't come on YA and try to think that we can do what we did back then because (1940's-1950's) we lived in a different America. An America that was unfair for people's rights to live peacefully. We are not about to do something that's not practical and unethical by deporting all the illegals.
You can only dream.
Plus, I think you are too ignorant to even know that 12 million illegal immigrants will not be deported, have you heard? It's a fact.
What was done to Japanese Americans is an embarrasment on our countries history. They were Americans not illegals. I do agree that we could round up the illegals if our goverment really wanted to do so.
yeah who cares about the constitution or the bill of rights.pffft
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