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Was president Roosevelt justified in ordering the executive order 9066

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Of course not!

He may have had legal justification, and it may have seemed like the correct way to at the time due to their situation, but they forced over 100,000 innocent AMERICAN CITIZENS (who happened to be Japanese) out of their homes and into internment camps. Can you not tell how obviously horrible this was? Simply because we were at war with Japan did not mean every Japanese person was evil and out to get us, especially when so many of those people had been living in America before any of this happened in the first place. It was wrong to kick so many people out and put them into horrible living conditions. Looking at from the perspective of all these years later, it should be obvious that ethically, Roosevelt was not justified and what he did was wrong, and overall America bad a bad decision doing this. But at the time, it makes sense why they may think there are spies or that something could happen due to letting them live there, even so, they were still wrong in doing so, morally.

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Yes he was, he was justified because article two grants him authority to issue executive order.
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