He was arrested and convicted for refusing to be relocated. Later he received a pardon but said,
"If anyone should do any pardoning, I should be the one pardoning the government for what they did to the Japanese-American people."
The Korematsu decision "belongs to what legal scholars describe as the anti-canon of American constitutional law — a small group of Supreme Court rulings universally assailed as wrong, immoral, and unconstitutional.”
In times of fear and crisis, we have a tendency towards actions that take people’s fundamental rights from them. Internment is still in our living memory in the US. I hope we never forget its lessons.
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