LAD #35: FDR's Executive Order #9066

In this order, FDR stated that he had the right to do anything in his power to protect the United States from destruction of national defense materials, utilities, and premises. He advocated that military establishments could be placed anywhere necessary, and these were meant to hold people who supported the Japanese Government. Specifically, these military areas were built to hold Japanese families. Approximately 120,000 Japanese people were held in this camps.