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' This vague, amorphous threat posed by Japanese-Americans to the West Coast, of course, was not similarly seen in the faces of Caucasian German-Americans, against whose nation the U.S. was also in military conflict. As eloquently expressed in the dissent by Justice Murphy: "No adequate reason is given for the failure to treat these Japanese-Americans on an individual basis by holding investigations and hearings to separate the loyal from the disloyal, as was done in the case of persons of German and Italian ancestry" (4). This was unconstitutional racism depriving citizens of due process, not based in any concrete intelligence information.

Interestingly enough, during the war many Japanese-Americans served in and died for the American military forces, despite the fact that their entire race was seen as potential traitors, according to the conception of the U.S. military. The dissent of Justice Roberts expressed this sense of injustice: "On the contrary, it is the case of convicting a citizen as a punishment for not submitting to imprisonment in a concentration camp, based on his ancestry, and solely because of his ancestry" (3). Also pointed out in the dissent was the fact that it would not have been unwieldy to hold loyalty hearings for those few whom were suspected of treason -- but this was not done, rather it was simply seen as 'safer' to engage in wholesale internment.

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Of course, with the benefit of hindsight it is easy to stay that the actions of the U.S. Supreme Court were wrong in the Korematsu decision. Detaining innocent Japanese-Americans did not enhance U.S. national security, it merely violated U.S. values and diverted needed time and resources away from the war effort. The internment was racially discriminatory and deprived citizens of their due process under the 14th Amendment. It is imperative that we learn the lessons of history whenever we are faced with threats from abroad again and do not commit the same crimes, as many were tempted to judge Muslim-Americans harshly as a group after 9/11......

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