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Some 120,000 Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. Early in 1942, the U.S. Department of Justice expanded a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Santa Fe, N.M., into one such holding center.
Eighty years ago, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that forced the removal and incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent during World War II.