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During World War II, nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of

whom were American citizens, were incarcerated by the US government
without due process. Can you think of any other times in American history
when constitutional rights have been denied to citizens because of their
race or religion?

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Yes, America"s treatment of Irish and Italian immigrants when they first came to America.

African Americans were not allowed to vote and Chinese people suffered the chinese exclusion act.

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