In the early 1940s, the United States was full of emotion as it had just joined the great and bloody World War II. Many Americans placed blame on the Japanese due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thus causing more racism and suspicion towards Japanese Americans living in the United States. On February 19, 1492, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the internment of the Japanese in the United States. The Japanese internment was an immoral and unconstitutional order, there was no need for the order other than to satiate the fear of the American people, and the Japanese Americans affected by it were harmed emotionally, physically and economically by the effects of this tragic and racist US government. Japanese internment was an incredibly immoral order that violated the rights and well-being of human beings. Many of the Japanese Americans who were labeled "menaces to society" were mostly average, law-abiding human beings who were in the United States only to follow their American Dream and make a better life for themselves and their family . . Approximately 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent were forced into internment camps. 62% of these were full US citizens, many of them born in the US (War Relocation Authority). If these people actually did the great work required to become citizens of the United States, they obviously cared and felt patriotism towards their country so as not to be considered a threat to American society. Furthermore, it was morally wrong to intern innocent citizens and human beings just because of their ethnic origin. We have absolutely no right to judge the inter...... middle of paper...... HEALTH IMPACT." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. Web. February 16, 2012. Le, CN "Construction and Destruction: Japanese American Internment." Asian-Nation. 2012. Web. February 15, 2012. Ostgaard, Kolleen, Chris Smart, Tom McGuire, Madeline Lanz, and Timothy A. Hodsen. "Rights Violated of Japanese Americans." Japanese American Internment Curriculum. State Legislature of California, May 2, 2000. Web. February 7, 2012. “Relocation and Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II.” University of California. Web. February 16, 2012. “The War Relocation Authority and the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II: 1948." Harry S. Truman National Library and Museum and Records Administration. Web. 7 February 2012. Warren, Earl "Japanese Internment," Web 17 February. 2012. .