American citizens of japanese descent were forcibly removed from their homes on the west coast and evacuated to large interment camps. The fear that these people were going to be a problem turned out to be 100 %, completely unfounded in terms of espionage and sabotage in the war. This is the sort of things we've talked about before that leaches away from the history books,. That makes it impossible for us to understand people from other eras because we we're not scared like they were. We don't have the emotions any more.