ABDELFATAH: And then Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. It authorized the forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans. RUDALEVIGE: You know, ripping people from their homes and ...

That involved President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 in 1942. It was the basis for the internment of around 112,000 people of Japanese descent, 70,000 of whom were American citizens.

Invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the internment ... the United States used the Alien Enemies Act and Executive Order 9066 to undercut civil rights ...