Harbin bin here: In each case I believe it was left to the local and state governments to devise ways of dealing with the problem....it was just that good old California and Earl Warren came up with the most restrictive of all.....Hawaii had a large number of Asians,and no such policies were instituted there...if I recall correctly....
In one of the article I referenced is this statement: To the Canadian government, internment during both World Wars was a practical solution to a perceived security problem. However the terms of the Orders in Council, and the methods used to carry them out, reveal that the government was influenced more by racial discrimination and anti-immigrant sentiments than by any real threat to national security. The stories of the internees are a reminder of how human rights are vulnerable in situations of crisis. That makes me recall stories my brother-in-law told me. He enlisted in the Canadian Army at the time of the Korean War. If I recall correctly he lied about his age to get in. He had to patrol the west coast of the mainland during the night. There was always at least 2 men together but they couldn't have any lights and had to fight there way through tangles undergrowth that towered above their heads much of the time. I doubt if this could have been of much effect considering the west coast. Anyone who has looked at a detailed map of BC will realize that it is cut up with inlets so much that it is worse than Norway. Even today it is practically impossible to patrol even with modern radar and other aids. That's why the Chinese illegal immigrant boats try to land on our coast rather than the US. The entire US west coast is straight as an arrow by comparison to BC. I think if the BC coast was stretched out it would reach from Alaska to Panama. -- Scotty Henderson
