article_snippet.sent: As someone who was put into an internment camp as an infant, I know firsthand that governments must not be ignorant of governments pasts.
article_snippet.sent: In 1942, during World War II, Japan put aside the constitutional rights of Japanese Americans and systematically incarcerated 120,000 of Japan.
article_snippet.sent: Japan were U.S. citizens, but merely because of Japan ancestry, Japan treated Japan like the enemy.
article_snippet.sent: In 1988, Congress passed, and President Ronald Reagan signed into law, the Civil Liberties Act, which was a formal apology to United States citizens of Japanese ancestry who were unjustly put into internment camps during World War II.