When executive order 9066 came to send anyone of Japanese descent to the internment camps. After the bombing of pearl harbor, Janet Daijogo who was born and raised in America on March 21, 1937 in San Francisco, California and a full citizen of the United States. Her parents that are Japanese descendants were sent away even though they were completely loyal to the United States of America. Thousands of other citizens shared stories related to Mrs. Daijogo. Not only thousands of Japanese-Americans were imprisoned, but also German-Americans and Italian-Americans. The Japanese-American internment from 1942 to 1945 was an abuse of power because Japanese-American’s lost the freedom to natural rights having to be locked up behind barbed wire. December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese warplanes attacked the American Pacific fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack took a terrible toll: eight battleships, including the USS Arizona, three light cruisers, and three destroyers and included four other naval vessels which were either sunk or damaged. One hundred and sixty-four American aircraft were also destroyed. (“Civil Rights Japanese Americans, ). On December 8, 1941, U.S. Congress declared war against Japan. Effectively making all Japanese Americans enemy combatants, this, in turn, caused the U.S. government to create the Japanese Internment camps. The result was that the Japanese internment was an Executive Order 9066 signed by President Roosevelt. It authorizing anyone with Japanese American blood or ancestry to go to the internment camps. All across the west, relocation notices were posted on April 30, 1942. All people of Japanese ancestry, including those with only 1/16th Japanese blood must report to the internment camps (“Civil Rights Japanese-Americans” ). Two thirds of the interns were U.S. citizens. Japanese American’s panic over Executive Order 9066. Japanese American’s were given approximately one week to prepare for the internment. They were only allowed to bring one bag of items with them with the expectation of no radios or cameras. During the one week the Japanese-Americans were given, there was a mad rush to sell properties, and often times the properties would be sold for half value of its original worth. Famers being interned desperately looked to neighbors to help take care of their crops, but like many Japanese-Americ