Japanese immigrants were imprisoned without trial, lawyer, or defense.

Evidence

That same night Gensuke and seventeen other first-generation Japanese immigrants were arrested. It was later revealed that he had been targeted because he was active in a local Japanese wrestling league that frequently held matches with sailors on leave from touring Japanese vessels. He was accused of “subversive activity” and eventually incarcerated in Montana. There was no trial, no lawyer, and no opportunity to present a defense. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 166

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