Fred Korematsu argued that internment was unconstitutional mainly because Internees did not receive due process.
Further Explanation:-
After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President of United States of that time, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order which was known as executive order 9066in which he authorized his war department to look for the military areas from which all or any Americans may be excluded. On the same time the Western Defense command along with a military command of United States charged towards west coast of the United States and it ordered all the people from Japanese ancestry which included all the aliens and non-aliens of Japan and the order was to relocate to the internment camps. A man from Japanese-American origin refused to go to the camp and did not want to leave the exclusion zone and instead of leaving his place he challenged the order of the military power of United States and that was seen as the violation of the Fifth Amendment. During that period of time there were Japanese-Americans who were interned were given grants of reparations by using Civil Liberties act 1988 and that happened after many years of internment.
Fred Korematsu argued that internment was unconstitutional mainly because internees did not receive due process.
In President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s EO 9066, residents from the West Coast who had Japanese ancestry were to be deemed as enemies. Fred Korematsu pointed out that internment violates his constitutional rights. He also pointed out that internment was an obvious type of racial discrimination.
