US citizens were imprisoned without hearing solely because of their race.

Evidence

Of the more than 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry imprisoned during World War II, two-thirds were US citizens, and almost all of the remaining one-third were permanent residents. They were imprisoned solely because of their race, because they looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. They were innocent and had done nothing to suggest disloyalty. And yet they were still rounded up and sent to prison without so much as a hearing. The government justified this abuse of power as necessary to protect national security in a time of war. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 185

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

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