Executive Order NO. 9066 pg. 741

The general argument made by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his work Executive order NO. 9066 is that it is his duty to keep Americans safe from people attacking and sabotaging America. More specifically Roosevelt suggests that in this time when Pearl Harbor had just been attacked, he was going to incarcerate all Japanese Americans. He writes, “Whereas the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage to national defense material, nation defense premises…(741)” In this passage Roosevelt is suggesting that he has the executive order to put Japanese Americans into internment camps because he is trying to protect the country. In conclusion it is Roosevelt’s belief that if Japanese Americans were put in to these camps for the remainder of the war it would keep Americans from being sabotaged.

In my view Roosevelt is wrong because not all of the Japanese Americans would sabotage the Americans. It was a huge generalization to put the Japanese Americans in to these camps. For example that is like saying that after nine eleven we should have put all middle eastern people into camps. Although Roosevelt might object that it was for the good of our country, I maintain my belief that putting all Japanese people in to these camps was wrong. They were taken away from their families and their jobs and a lot of them didn’t do anything to receive such punishment. Therefore, I conclude that it was wrong to put all Japanese Americans into camps. I feel like Roosevelt could have made a better decision and thought before putting all of these good people into the camps.