In February 1942, two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered Americans of Japanese ancestry removed from their homes and sent to "relocation centers" including one near Tule Lake in California. Today this site is a National Historic Landmark, still surrounded by barbed wire.
According to the museum display, people were subjected to a questionnaire designed to test their loyalty to the United States. It contained lots of confusing and "trick" questions. I don't think I would have "passed." And my ancestors came over here on the Mayflower.
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