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Why were Japanese Americans in Hawaii not forced to go to internment camps ?

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It was mainly Japanese people who lived on the continental United States who were sent to internment camps because at the time, Hawaii was just a U.S. territory and not a state, so they couldn't legally send the Japanese to internment camps.
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