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Franklin D. RooseveltExecutive Order No. 9066A
UTHORIZING THE
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 February 19, 1942
 
 At the time of the attack by Imperial Japan on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, about 126,000 Japanese Americans were living in the United States, mostly on the Pacific coast,including both non-citizen immigrants from Japan (called “issei”) and their citizen childrenborn in the U.S. (called “nisei”). Another 150,000 lived in Hawaii, then a territory and not yet astate. Following the order of President Roosevelt reproduced below, approximately 110,000 of the Japanese Americans on the Pacific coast, two-thirds of them nisei, were “excluded” from“military areas,” and, by a subsequent order establishing the War Relocation Authority, taken tolive in ten internment camps in the interior desert regions of the West. (Only a few thousand  Japanese residents of Hawaii were similarly treated.) The president’s orders were subsequentlyembodied in an act of Congress on March 21, 1942. The camps operated until the end of thewar.
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the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection againstespionage and against sabotage to national-defense material, national-defense premises, andnational-defense utilities as defined in section 4, Act of April 20, 1918, 40 Stat. 533, as amendedby the act of November 30, 1940, 54 Stat. 1220, and the Act of August 21, 1941, 55 Stat. 655 (U.S. C., Title 50, Sec. 104):N
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, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the UnitedStates, and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, I hereby authorize and direct theSecretary of War, and the Military Commanders whom he may from time to time designate,whenever he or any designated Commander deems such actions necessary or desirable, toprescribe military areas in such places and of such extent as he or the appropriate MilitaryCommanders may determine, from which any or all persons may be excluded, and with suchrespect to which, the right of any person to enter, remain in, or leave shall be subject to whateverrestrictions the Sectary of War or the appropriate Military Commander may impose in hisdiscretion. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to provide for residents of any such areawho are excluded therefrom, such transportation, food, shelter, and other accommodations asmay be necessary, in the judgement of the Secretary of War or the said Military Commander, anduntil other arrangements are made, to accomplish the purpose of this order. The designation of military areas in any region or locality shall supersede designations of prohibited and restrictedareas by the Attorney General under the Proclamations of December 7 and 8, 1941, and shallsupersede the responsibility and authority of the Attorney General under the said Proclamationsin respect of such prohibited and restricted areas.I hereby further authorize and direct the Secretary of War and the said MilitaryCommanders to take such other steps as he or the appropriate Military Commander may deemadvisable to enforce compliance with the restrictions applicable to each Military areahereinabove authorized to be designated, including the use of Federal troops and other FederalAgencies, with authority to accept assistance of state and local agencies.
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