Prisoners in America
As the United States entered World War II, fellow allied governments asked the United States to help house prisoners of war, because other governments were having housing shortages. Most of those prisoners were of the German descent, however the United States also housed Japanese prisoners.
"We saw all these people behind the fence, looking out, hanging onto the wire, and looking out because they were anxious to know who was coming in. But I will never forget the shocking feeling that human beings were behind this fence like animals [crying]. And we were going to also lose our freedom and walk inside of that gate and find ourselves…cooped up there…when the gates were shut, we knew that we had lost something that was very precious; that we were no longer free."
- Mary Tsukamoto, Interned Japanese Mother