Loss of Individual Rights: Japanese Internment Camps
With Executive Order #9066, thousands of Japanese Americans, most of whom were citizens, were denied the right to trial and were imprisoned during World War II, leading to changes in the responsibility and power of the Executive Branch.
In 1942, over one hundred ten thousand Japanese Americans were sent to prison camps simply because of their ancestry. The loss of the rights of these citizens was due to fear that they would assist Japan in World War II. President Franklin Roosevelt in February 1942 issued Executive Order # 9066 that forced those of Japanese ancestry along the west coast of the United States to relocate to prison camps.