The Bureau previously has acknowledged that it provided neighborhood information on Japanese-Americans for that purpose, but it has maintained that it never provided “microdata,” meaning names and specific information about them, to other agencies.Ī new study of U.S. The Second War Powers Act of 1942 temporarily repealed that protection to assist in the roundup of Japanese-Americans for imprisonment in internment camps in California and six other states during the war. The Census Bureau surveys the population every decade with detailed questionnaires but is barred by law from revealing data that could be linked to specific individuals. Secret Service with names and addresses of Japanese-Americans during World War II. But in 1943, the Bureau supplied census data to facilitate those detentions:ĭespite decades of denials, government records confirm that the U.S. Until fairly recently in American history, the United States Census Bureau denied facilitating the internment of American citizenships in camps in the 1940s.
Another controversy involved the proposed inclusion of a “ citizenship question” on the 2020 census. In the post, Glass points to three historical examples where “riots,” “war,” or general uprisings were responsible for an abrupt end to ongoing violations of civil and human rights - Japanese internment camps during World War II, slavery before the American Civil War, and the Holocaust.Ī notable coda not mentioned in the Facebook post was its implicit analogue to 2019 events - namely, anti-immigrant sentiment and the use of detainment camps based on presumed ethnicity or nationality. You know what didn’t stop any of these atrocities? Voting.ĭo you know what it will take to stop mass incarceration and child detention centers? Don’t kill the messenger. That same year, the case went to the Supreme Court and they eventually pulled the plug. There was a huge riot in 1942 where police killed a guy, and a riot in 1943 after another internment death.
In full, it read:ĭo y’all know how Japanese internment ended? Riots. The original post was published by Facebook user Rick Glass that same day. On July 16 2019, the Facebook page “Close the Camps” shared the following screenshot ( archived here) of a Facebook post asserting that riots, rebellion, and war were necessary to put a stop to concentration camps, World War II, and slavery:
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