The San Diego City Council Tuesday officially rescinded Resolution 76068, which called for the FBI to remove San Diegans of Japanese descent during World War II.
The initial resolution, passed Jan. 27, 1942, corresponded with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signing Executive Order No. 9066, under which more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated in 10 camps in the western United States and Arkansas during the war.
The U.S. Supreme Court then upheld Order 9066 in the case Korematsu v. United States in 1944, described by Councilwoman Marni von Wilpert on Tuesday as"one of the most reviled decisions in the Supreme Court's history." The initial San Diego resolution reads:"The Council of the City of San Diego hereby respectfully calls the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the fact that there are in San Diego and vicinity many enemy aliens, especially Japanese, whose continued residence here is considered inimical to the best interests of this vital defense area.
In 1980, Congress created the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians to examine the actions and impact of Executive Order 9066. Following 18 months of investigation, the commission concluded that the order was not justified by"military necessity" but was due to"racial prejudice, wartime hysteria, and a failure of political leadership."
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