National-security language for mass roundups debuted against Japanese Americans

Evidence

The language of “national security” and “enemy aliens” that emerged into the parlance of the day during the War on Terror was also not new. These terms, and the hysteria that surrounded them, were first deployed to round up Japanese people on the American West Coast from 1942 through 1946. Nearly 120,000 people of Japanese descent were forcibly removed from their homes and placed in concentration camps after the Pearl Harbor attacks of December 7, 1941. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 224

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• XREF: Shows the US state learning/transferring its own internment techniques — a model for the reader’s cross-national state-learning question. — connects to: Three-quarters of interned Japanese Americans were US citizens