On September 2, 1943, the Swedish ship MS Gripsholm departed the U.S. with just over 1,300 Japanese nationals (including nearly a hundred from Canada and Mexico) en route for the exchange location, Marmagao, the main port of the Portuguese colony of Goa on the west coast of India [REF].
On December 18, 1944, the Supreme Court handed down two decisions on the legality of the incarceration under Executive Order 9066.