A similar plan to relocate German and Italian aliens aroused such protest that the government canceled it, explaining that it would affect the nation’s economic structure and lower morale among citizens of those nationalities. But there was no one to speak for the Nisei, who were citizens but usually referred to as “aliens”—their skin was a different color. Almost 110,000 loyal Americans, whose sole crime was their ancestry, were uprooted from their homes, which they were forced to sell for a pittance. They were interned behind barbed wire in “relocation centers” along the coast which were
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