The U.S. Government feared that Japanese Americans would be more loyal to Japan in comparison to the United States and could engage in espionage or sabotage efforts in the United States. This was not justified and is considered unconstitutional given that this was the targeting of a specific racial group for detention based upon nothing other than their ethnicity. In a report, ordered by the Carter Administration, it was found that there was little evidence of illegal activity by Japanese-American communities against the state and that these were purely racially motivated policies.
