In the propaganda photo titled "Waiting for the Signal From Home." which shows Japanese Americans picking up a bar of TNT waiting for Japan to signal to fire it off in the United States. Propaganda has its powers to influence people and whose to say that FDR's executive order was influenced by propaganda or that politicians and war generals could also have the automatic fear of Japanese Americans thinking about betraying America. A good 62 percent were Japanese Americans who were likely born there. Robert Kashiwagi stated:.
As far as I'm concerned, I was born here, and according to the Constitution that I studied in school, That I had the Bill of Rights that should have backed me up. And until the very minute I got onto the evacuation train, I says, "It can't be". I says, "How can they do that to an american citizen?" ("The War") Even though you were born or naturalized in the United States you were still considered to be "aiding" the enemy which means that they ignored the rights of about sixty-two percent of the interned Japanese Americans. And people can also say that were just in the wrong area at the wrong time. In 1944, a case opened up called "Frank Korematsu vs. United States" where a man who was charged with ignoring the executive order tries to appeal the case to the supreme court that the Executive Order is found to be unconstitutional. In December 1944, The final decision was six to three, upholding the constitutionality of the executive order. Writing for the majority, Justice Hugo L. Black said, "All legal restrictions which curtail the civil rights of a single racial group are immediately suspect. [But Korematsu] was not excluded from the Military Area because of hostility to him or his race. He was excluded because we are at war with the Japanese Empire, because the properly constituted military authorities feared an invasion of the West Coast.