They were told where to report later for relocation at an assembly center, then to an internment camp (Bondi 304). From March to May, Japanese-Americans with only one-sixteenth Japanese blood and higher, were made to pack up and get to relocation centers (Daniel 702). The Japanese were being treated unimaginably unfair, but to make matters even worse, they were given as little as four days to two weeks for evacuation (Bondi 304). In this tiny amount of time, evacuees had to sell, rent, or store, their homes, cars, furniture, and many of their belongings and keep-safes. The evacuees were desperate; they sold their things for ridiculously low prices!.
However, more disturbing is the fact that both the Naval Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that Japanese-Americans had done nothing wrong. Despite these facts, the government ignored the two agencies (Bondi 241). U.S. Lieutenant General John Dewitt and many others theorized that because no evidence was found against the Japanese, the Japanese must be saboteurs. Have you ever heard of such a ridiculous accusation? They actually believed that no evidence was found because the Japanese citizens were very carefully covering up the evidence (Bondi 240)!.
Life in an internment was like living in a jail. People of Japanese heredity were arrested and basically sent to jail even though no crime was committed! There were ten relocation centers: Granada, Colorado, Heart Mountain, Wyoming, Topaz, Utah, Poston and Gila Bend, Arizona, Tule Lake and Manzana, California, Jerome and Rohwer, Arkansas, and Minidoka, Idaho (Kelly 491). In a senate debate on April 20th, 1988, Senator Daniel Evans spoke about the appalling life style of which the interned lived, "Once they arrived at the relocation centers they found the quality of life atrocious. They were overcrowded and families suffered from an acute lack of privacy, with no borders or walls to separate them from others.
