Internment of Japanese Americans

Following the entry of the United States into the war, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942 authorizing the relocation and restriction of movement of persons considered "enemy aliens" to designated zones in the western US. Although not specified, the order was primarily leveraged against Japanese Americans. Under the oversight of the newly-established War Relocation Authority, c. 120,000 first and second-generation Japanese Americans were forced to relocate to internment camps, including one in Colorado at Granada (Amache). Only some 14,000 European-born "enemy aliens" (mostly German or Italian) were detained.