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The War Department's Final Report on the Exclusion Order

In january 1944 the war department released a copy of de witt's final report to the public. This report was a 618 page rationale for what the government called its evacuation program The document included a detailed summary of logistics along with charts tables and photographs All of it insinuated that japanese people were a threat inherently loyal only to their homeland Citizens are not they could not be trusted on american soil. By the fall of 1944 the supreme court would have a chance to make that decision itself Both koramatsu and endos cases would be heard at the same time Mitsuyi endo remained atulie lake with her family. But fred had been given leave to move

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