What are the contemporary debates surrounding the use of detention and surveillance in the name of national security?

May 17, 2018 ... Medical professionals were also among those that were interned. The U.S. government conscripted these physicians and nurses to provide ... Just hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, approximately 1,291 Japanese. American community and religious leaders were arrested by ... Mar 3, 2017 ... It depends on who you ask. Mr. Kubik gives what the government's focus was—to prevent subversion, spying, treachery by the Japanese Americans ... Feb 17, 2017 ... "Like Nazi Germany, we Japanese Americans were put into concentration camps," said Okazaki, now 82, while recognising that detainees were not ... May 10, 2023 ... Hayakawa—who spent the war years in Chicago and thus did not go to camp himself—famously claiming that camp was “good” for Japanese Americans . Internment camps were sort of like prisons. People were forced to move into an area that was surrounded by barbed wire. They were not allowed to leave. Why did ... Jan 20, 2017 ... Dillon Myer preferred internment camp; he adamantly opposed the use of concentration camps. FDR himself called them concentration camps. As did ... Oct 29, 2009 ... From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, would be incarcerated in ... Apr 29, 2017 ... Known as the Manzanar War Relocation Center during World War II, it was one of 10 sites where Japanese Americans were incarcerated for nearly four years. Our guiding principles are to preserve the nearby Topaz incarceration site and its World War II history; to interpret the impact of Topaz on the Japanese ...