Government Wrong Doings
Historical background
Governments should offer apologies if at all the crimes against humanity are committed intentionally. No one has the right to mistreat another person irrespective of the color, race or class. The 5th and 6th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, it clearly states and guarantees that’ no individual shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Those accused of a crime shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial hurry to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation’ (Vile, 2015). However, these amendments seemed to be only on paper since, during 1942-1946, approximately 120,000 people lacked ownership of property and liberty without prior conviction or criminal charges and trial for that matter. Also, all individuals who were Japanese and resided on the West Coast were forcefully evicted from their areas of residence and later taken into custody in inland camps, which were popularly known as “internment camps.” These events were based on age, ancestry, and citizenship and it was not a matter of wrongdoing. The Japanese Americans were the only people that were oppressed and singled out majorly for mass incarceration (Dick, 2015).
The events that led to the first immigrants from Asia were mainly connected to the California Gold Rush. California, during World War II, was a mere lawless frontier. The territory had been secured from the Mexicans in 1848, and almost immediately, Gold was confirmed in the area. Most of the immigrants who came to work in the gold mines were from China. However, when the English speaking people came into the picture, they drove the Chinese away through acts of mass murder and arson, all in the name of reducing competition in the Goldmine. When California was commissioned to turn into a sovereign state in the year 1850, unruly discrimination and brutality against the Chinese and the Japanese escalated to a legal form of discrimination (Brody, Leonard, Nie & Weindling, 2014). Evidently, Article 19 of the State of California Constitution gave authorization to different cities to expel and restrict Japanese and Chinese people to isolated areas. Also, they were denied access from employment in corporations as well as public agencies. The Chinese and Japanese faced all forms of discrimination that one could think of. They were facing all sorts of violence against them which went as far as not being able to acquire citizenship. As time went by and the Chinese population started to decline, mainly because there were no women around any many men went back to China, there was a shortage of labor. This led the Agricultural industry to recruit Japanese laborers who worked on the sugar plantations. From the few numbers that were already residing in the USA before the Chinese mass expulsion, the numbers grew significantly throughout the years. The Japanese, however, were treated with a lot of caution, as long as the remained docile, they were readily …
