NEW YORK POST, February 22, 1942

* Internment of Japanese Americans
* FDR's Executive Order 9066
* Alien control order
* World War II - WWII

The front page has a one column heading: "FBI Pounces On Axis Aliens in N.Y. and N.J." (see images)
Complete with 14 pages, light toning at the margins, some small binding holes along the spine, generally nice.

Background: Executive Order 9066 and the subsequent mass incarceration of Japanese Americans stand as a profound and cautionary crisis in American constitutional history, exposing how easily civil liberties can be dismantled during times of national fear and war hysteria. Its significance lies in the total failure of all three branches of the federal government to protect its own citizens: the Executive branch initiated a sweeping violation of human rights based on racial prejudice rather than credible intelligence, Congress largely acquiesced to the decision, and the Supreme Court ultimately validated the systemic denial of due process in Korematsu v. United States by prioritizing "military necessity" over the Constitution. By stripping 120,000 individuals—the majority of whom were U.S. citizens—of their homes, livelihoods, and freedom without individual charges or trials, the event shattered the promise of equal protection under the law and set a dangerous legal precedent that national security concerns can be used to justify state-sponsored racial discrimination. Decades later, the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 established a vital framework for national reckoning, showing that while a democracy can fail catastrophically in moments of panic, it must carry the institutional responsibility to formally apologize, offer reparations, and actively educate future generations to prevent such a betrayal of constitutional principles from ever happening again.