Why were Japanese Americans placed in internment camps during world war2

Americans did not think that Japanese Americans would fight alongside them and end up fighting with the Japanese and not against them. They had Japanese and American heritage and did not know which side they would stay true to. The internment camps provided a place which the Japanese were placed to avoid any signs of disloyalty which could be displayed to which the Americans could not risk.

states

explanation:

as the old saying goes, all politics are local. state and federal governments affect our daily lives in numerous ways. yet, in our federal system, there is supposed to be a balance between federal and state power. as james madison envisioned it in federalist no. 51, “the power surrendered by the people” would be “divided between two distinct governments,” creating a balance of power that would enable the “different governments [to] control each other.”