Internment Camps
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States was the forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens.
The camps were created because the United States was scared of connections Japanese Americans might have to the enemy. The U.S. didn’t want Japan to bomb us again with any possible help from a Japanese American. The camps were also started because the U.S. thought the Japanese Americans were going to betray the United States.
The camps were created because the United States was scared of connections Japanese Americans might have to the enemy. The U.S. didn’t want Japan to bomb us again with any possible help from a Japanese American. The camps were also started because the U.S. thought the Japanese Americans were going to betray the United States.
Sharp park internment camp
many U.S and Japanese Americans were sent here.Immediately after December 7, 1941, the United States Army and the Immigration and Naturalization Service rounded up the aliens listed on Hoover’s secret lists. The fact they were all located and detained as quickly as they were is a testament to Hoover’s tenacity and paranoia. The Sharp Park Camp had been pre-selected as a site to house these detainees. One hundred and ninety three of the original occupants were transferred from the Silver Avenue INS detention center, which had quickly filled to capacity due to a fire that destroyed a building at the Angel Island Internment Camp, to Sharp Park. Sharp Park was designated an interment camp and was originally used to house German, Italian, and Japanese while they were waiting to be transported to a more permanent relocation camp inland.