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...States would subvert the war effort. This time around it was easy to identify and isolate potential subversives, and the Army--backed by Congress, the Supreme Court and public opinion--began to imprison Japanese-Americans. By 1942, the "relocation" policy, which was originally supposed to cover only 40,000 non-citizen Japanese, had expanded to mandate the internment of 70,000 American citizens of Japanese descent living on the West Coast...
Fatch Azzam, another member of the coalition, said that the private security force was there because many of the protestors were non-citizen students, who want to avoid any trouble that might threaten their status in the country...
...break the Asian hold on trade and semi-skilled jobs, the African-dominated Government required all non-citizens to have working permits and all traders and merchants to have licenses. Discrimination figured in many cases--permits were granted slowly, often for very short periods, and the awarding of licenses openly favored Africans, even if the Asians were citizens. The Government's solution to the "racial problem" was simply to remove most of the Asians. One Kenya minister remarked, "If I were an Asian non-citizen I'd leave tonight." A steady flow of emigrants--perhaps 10-20,000 a year...