Executive Order 9066 was issued in the 1942 as the U.S. was about to engage in war with the Axis powers of Japan, Germany and Italy. The order called for the incarceration of Japanese, German and Italian Americans in special camps for fear that there might be spies amongst them who would inform the enemy of American plans ( way more Japanese were incarcerated than the Europeans).
This most definitely went against Franklin D. Roosevelt's proclamation in 1938 that the U.S. was to be a beacon of freedom and civil liberties because not only did they deny certain people certain liberties during WWII, those people denied were actual American citizens. One can only imagine how those who were not American were treated.
