Photographers' Constitutional Challenge Thrown Out

Tom1956 said:

Or was that the Dec. of Ind. that said something about "they send their swarms hitherto, to eat out our substance"?

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Cool quote, but sadly, all too true. My opinion about this whole border thing sounds a little "conspiracy theoristy."

By suspending the constitutional rights of a large percentage of our population, they can create a "box" for those they can't control. It creates a buffer around those who hold more traditional views on the Constitution and our essential liberties, perhaps a way to squeeze them into compliance, or at least acceptance. Demographics show that the largest percentage of those not of the controllable persuasion, are in the center of the country. By controllable persuasion, I mean, of course, the moochers and looters who either feed upon our labors, or use them to buy the votes that secure their power.

DREW WILEY said:

But it was distinctly a West Coast thing targeted primarily at Calif Central Valley and the Hood River Valley along the Columbia. Some spillover
was inevitable, but the motive seems pretty obvious.

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It was all over the state. People from all sorts of professions and from urban as well as rural areas were disenfranchised. People lost homes and all types of businesses. And yes, as you point out, all that they had was in effect stolen from them.

Not to say that greedy interests did not manipulate for their own gain.

DREW WILEY said:

... By comparison, properties of people of German descent were never seized, nor were they interred, though a degree of abuse was inevitable.

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That's not true. German and Italian Americans went through similar experiences. The Germans in BOTH wars. The father of one of my mother's friends was detained during the war because he was a German American, even though he was Jewish.

There are lots of records if you even do a cursory Google search.

The difference was that being of European descent, it was harder to distinguish between them, and many had changed their names at Ellis Island. The Japanese were more visibly identifiable and had actually attacked our installations. The many Japanese interred were not just farmer's. Many were shopkeepers and other city folks. Even mixed Asian ethnicities were included if they had any Japanese.

It was not big business who was behind it, either. It was widespread paranoia that primarily led to it, although the white farmers did support it.