Talk:War Relocation Authority

$38.19 per day to feed each person?
$38.19 per day to feed each person? really? in the 1940s? Can someone with access to the relevant source check this figure? Alastairgbrown 21:35, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the confusion, I mis-typed, it should have read 38.19 cents. I have corrected it.

I would like to know who made the stupid decision to take the entire family. I have read Canada only took the adult males. This was not necessary and multiplied the effect. I also read that it was at first just going to be adult males in the US but then it was changed to include the entire family. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.3.209.200 (talk) 21:38, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Canada interned adults because of the security threat. The USA interned all Japanese out of racism and hostility to Japanese. Do not underestimate the extent of that hatred. Polls mid-war showed over 30% of Americans literally wanted all Japanese killed - men, women and children.Royalcourtier (talk) 08:33, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * Also available online for search through the Access to Archival Databases (AAD) resource from the National Archives is the Records About Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, created, 1988 - 1989, documenting the period 1942 - 1946.--Pubdog (talk) 22:19, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

German/Italian Americans, Japanese Latin Americans
I just took out the mention of these groups from the lede because they were held in DOJ, Immigration or army camps, not the public "relocation centers." The WRA's only responsibility was the incarceration of Japanese Americans, nobody else. MartinaDee (talk) 00:01, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

New Deal
"Eisenhower was a proponent of Roosevelt's New Deal and disapproved of the idea of the mass internment". Perhaps Eisenhower was a supported of the New Deal, but that has nothing to do with sending all Japanese to concentration camps.Royalcourtier (talk) 08:34, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Online WRA Records
Now available for on-line research are the Portland Branch Evacuee Property Files, 3/18/1942 - 6/30/1946 in the National Archives Catalog (NAID 40143322).--Pubdog (talk) 22:16, 29 December 2016 (UTC)