All of these camps were immoral, unjust, and wrong. Every victim deserves a yearly apology. But, instead of being honest, Biden doubled down on the hyperbolic, divisive, and agenda-driven narrative, cwtremo writes.
President Joe Biden released a statement on Sunday for the Day of Remembrance of Japanese American Incarceration. It's a day to commemorate the victims who were put into camps during World War II as a result of Executive Order 9066. Just as he did last year, Biden called these internment camps"one of the most shameful chapters in our nation's history." He made all the usual condemnations that presidents and leaders have been making for years.
Like much of what Biden says, his statement about these camps was less than truthful. It wasn't"simply because of their heritage" that Japanese people were interned. It was a precautionary move because the Empire of Japan attacked the United States, and the government was concerned about another one. It was the same reason thousands of people of Italian and German heritage in the country suffered the same fate.
And it wasn't just Italians. Approximately 11,000 people of German ancestry were arrested and put into camps. Four camps were used to hold Germans and were known as Department of Justice camps. The two main ones were in Georgia and California. They, too, were considered enemy aliens and, as a result, had their homes and possessions confiscated by the government.
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