WASHINGTON (WCSC) — President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated a controversial World War II policy on Feb. 19, 1942, that led to the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans in internment ...

Eighty-four years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forced removal and mass incarceration of more than 125,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.

My parents were just children when they were wrested from their homes into tarpaper barracks surrounded by barbed wire. The message: They were not welcome. On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D.

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