ey were error free. The Government is run by people, and people can be imperfect, which means they can make imperfect decisions. The people who were forced to leave their homes suffered and lost a lot. They were often given notice of the relocation dates only a few days in advance. They could only bring with them what they could carry, and they were forced to sell their belongings at fractions of the actual worth. Before the more permanent facilities could be built, the people had to live in make shift detention areas, often nothing more than a converted horse stable. The actual relocation camps were better. Still, they were forced to live in undesirable conditions where they had little or no privacy and only the luxuries that they brought with them. Worst of all, they felt betrayed because the country that most had been so loyal to had treated them so badly (Brimner). Their treatment was harsh and unethical, but this was war. At the time, and because the people in charge did not have a lot of truthful information, they could not have known that the people they were forcing such a strict law upon would not have threatened the country. They did know that many of the Japanese were innocent citizens, and they should have made more of an effort to investigate each person, but they were working on the safe side. In the Supreme Court case of Korematsu vs. the United States a man who had been charged with disobeying Public Law 503, which made it a crime to go against any of DeWitt's orders, appealed to the Supreme Court because he felt what was done to him was unconstitutional. In this case the legality of internment was brought up, even though it was not the focus of the case. Korematsu's opinions were that he should have been given a trial before he was "imprisoned", there was no real military reason to evacuate the Japanese, and that DeWitt's actions and laws were based on racism, and it is illegal in the constitution for anyone to be impri...
