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(5 interesting facts from Exploring the Japanese American Interment)

• The FBI had a list of people they thought were of danger to the USA and created the list using the principle of "guilty by association."
• The Japanese helped support Buddhist churches, therefore the Buddhist priests were considered dangerous by the FBI.
• The FBI arrested more than 2,000 men, labeled them as enemy aliens, and took away their families and all of their belongings.
• The United States went hostage shopping in Latin America and took Latin American citizens.
• In the internment camps, the Japanese were put into a single file line, told to strip, and then were sprayed with a DDT-like chemical power.