Japanese Americans alone among enemy-descended groups suffered mass detention without review

Evidence

The imprisonment of Japanese Americans was implemented “without individual review.” By contrast, “individualized, selective action” was taken against resident aliens from other enemy nations. As the report argued, “No mass exclusion or detention, in any part of the country, was ordered against American citizens of German or Italian descent. The ethnic Japanese suffered a unique injustice during these years.” — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 198

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Contrast with narrative in ‘On Sacrifice’ articles’ logic of how targeted groups are singled out; also feeds a reparations essay comparing scrutiny levels applied to different harmed groups.
• XREF: connects to: Three-quarters of interned Japanese Americans were US citizens