The Western Defense Command's order for all Japanese Americans to migrate voluntarily inland was
A)protested by communities in the interior.
B)opposed by President Franklin Roosevelt.
C)overturned by the Supreme Court as a violation of "equal protection" and "due process."
D)all of the above

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Communities in the interior protested against the voluntary migration of Japanese Americans, fearing economic competition and cultural differences. This resistance was part of the broader context of wartime hysteria and racial prejudice. President Franklin Roosevelt actually authorized the executive order that led to the internment, and the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the internment in the 1944 case Korematsu v. United States, rather than overturning it.

The Western Defense Command's Order for All Japanese Americans to Migrate