Zen or not. Similarly, if the United States and Mexico were involved in a border war, every Mexican-American could be held in a concentration camp under this nightmarish ruling.

Over four decades after World War II, various pro- posals were put forward in Congress to compensate the more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans who were interned during World War II. The first edition, of this book, published in 1987, called upon Congress to provide compensation to the internees. In 1988 Congress apologized for interning Japanese-Americas and awarded compensation of $20,000 to each survivor. Benefits were paid beginning in 1990.

Fred Korematsu and other Americans of Japanese ancestry filed a new lawsuit in 1983, alleging that the Justice Department of the Army fabricated the...

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