Franklin Roosevelt ordered more than 100,000 West Coast Japanese Americans to internment camps.

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This is true. In 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which authorized the forced relocation and internment of Japanese Americans living on the West Coast during World War II. Approximately 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, were forced to leave their homes and businesses and live in internment camps for the duration of the war.

Franklin Roosevelt Ordered More Than 100,000 West Coast Japanese Americans