On the grounds that the success of WWII depended on the prevention of foreign espionage in the United States, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared that the Secretary of War is authorized to construct military areas in which "any or all persons may be excluded", and gave the Secretary discretion to who should enter these areas. Additionally, FDR stated that the Secretary is authorized to provide food, transportation, shelter, and other accommodations for these groups. The Secretary was also granted power to enforce compliance with these laws by use of federal troops. This extreme executive order was brought of due to the panic after Pearl Harbor, and the tensions created between many Americans and Japanese Americans.
This is similar to the Jim Crow laws only recently outlawed in America. This was used to separate and isolate a specific race, and created a lot of racial tension.
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