In February 1942, the United States government began a concerted effort to forcibly remove and incarcerate people of Japanese ancestry from several western states. Never before haved the government caster aside the core principles of American democracy, in the spirit of protecting the people, land, and war effort from perceived threats. These threats supposedly coames from people of a certain nationality. Caving to public and political pressure, athe program was implemented by the government thatnd still weighed heavily on the public conscience all of these years later.