You make good points Ishmael, but isn't the question "what was known at the time"? Maybe in the immediate afgermath of Pearl it could be feared an invasion or raid of the West Coast was a possibility...not that it was justified to lock up the whole Japanese-American population of course. Prudence would have been in order, and certainly the German-American Bund would have been the equivalent of Al Queda opening a branch office in the US and should have been treated the same way I imagine AQ would be.
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