The US interned Japanese-Americans by legally recategorizing them from enemies to an enemy race.

Evidence

(Just prior to President Roosevelt’s 1942 Executive Order 9066 to intern Japanese-Americans in detention camps, the officer in charge of the U.S. Western Defense Command, Lieutenant General John L. De Witt, successfully defended the devastating argument that the Japanese were not only “alien enemies,” but an “enemy race.”) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 394 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Three-quarters of interned Japanese Americans were US citizens; Japanese-Americans were classified as an enemy race, not merely alien enemies, before internment. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 394; Domestic populations representing foreign enemies were interned in US wars (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Japanese-Americans were classified as an enemy race, not merely alien enemies, before internment. #corroborates (0.95) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 394