36% of the people interned under the alien control program were German Americans.
I wonder why Japanese Americans get this kind of outpouring of support we see in the thread in a way that German Americans would never get, having been shit on for not one but two world wars.
That you’re being currently downvoted for mentioning this fact is itself concerning.
Because nothing like what happened to US citizens of Japanese descent happened directly at government hands to citizens of German descent. German-Americans were not involuntarily interned (aside from people, including US citizens, of Japanese descent, only nationals of enemy powers were involuntarily interned; the only German-Americans who were interned were family members of enemy aliens, and that only because the government chose not to forcibly separate them.) Internment of aliens owing allegiance to an enemy state in a time of war categorically different than doing so to your own citizens based only on ethnicity.
It doesn't look like Japanese internment was under the auspices of the Alien Control program, because [0] refers to, "By the end of the war, over 31,000 suspected enemy aliens and their families, including a few Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, had been interned at Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) internment camps and military facilities throughout the United States."
Whereas I think >100,000 Japanese were incarcerated.
0: https://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/enemy-aliens/w...
The internment of Americans of Japanese descent was under the auspices of the War Relocation Authority: unlike the internment of citizens of Germany, Italy, and other enemy states, which was based on status as enemy aliens (hence “Alien Control Program”), not ancestry. The somewhat sloppy common reference to the former as “Japanese" internment makes the two different programs seem more similar than they were.