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There were reparations paid in 1988 - not saying that it was enough, or should count as reimbursement, but there was some financial acknowledgement. In 1988, P
by WillPostForFood 5y ago
There were reparations paid in 1988 - not saying that it was enough, or should count as reimbursement, but there was some financial acknowledgement.
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which officially apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government and authorized a payment of $20,000 (equivalent to $44,000 in 2020) to each former internee who was still alive when the act was passed. The legislation admitted that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership."[30] By 1992, the U.S. government eventually disbursed more than $1.6 billion (equivalent to $3,500,000,000 in 2020) in reparations to 82,219 Japanese Americans who had been interned.[29][31]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Liberties_Act_of_1988 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Liberties_Act_of_1988
- olliej 5y agoFairly sure that they lost more than $20k. They lost pretty much all of their property and years of their lives. Claiming that there was any meaningful reparation is nonsense.