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Why did president roosevelt issue an executive order to relocate japanese americans from the west coast?

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After the attack on Pearl Harbor the USA was sneak attacked by the Japanese so Roosevelt had no other alternative than to place all Japanese -Americans in prison camps for America’s safety in case japan had spies in our country
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