![]() ![]() ![]() By February 1942, President Roosevelt released Executive Order 9066, which allowed the government to legally detain American citizens of Japanese, Italian, and German origin. After Pearl Harbor was bombed and the United States entered World War II, the FBI declared all Japanese Americans, German Americans, and Italian Americans to be "dangerous enemy aliens." The government arrested and detained people on a daily basis. By 1913, Japanese Americans were not allowed to own land in California. US (for an extended list of Supreme Court cases related to immigration, see History Now's issue on immigration). The United States Supreme Court upheld this ban in 1922 in the court case Ozawa v. In 1911, the United States Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization declared that only people descended from whites and African Americans could become citizens. In the years after that, however, the United States made it more difficult for Japanese to immigrate to America. In 1886, after the arrival of Commodore Perry, the Japanese government lifted its ban on emigration and allowed its citizens to move to other countries. ![]()
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