A Challenging Democracy

The movie clip entitled “A Challenge to Democracy” is the story of the Japanese Americans sent to live in interment camps during the war. The film clip gives an outline of what really went on during the time those people spent at the camps.
The movie starts with the massive transferring of Japanese people into the various interment camps from the west coast to the south of America. The people arrived at these camps with little or nothing. Families were put into rooms very small in size containing a couple beds, pillows, and chairs. In those small rooms relatively large families had to call this home for months and in most cases a year or more. When the people first arrived they had really no source of farming available, because they were mostly relocated to unsettled areas. The people had to rebuild irrigation systems, tend to the fields, and restart the whole process of being able to produce a main source of food for the people. Besides farming the interments camps were different from any type camps previously known in history. In the camps the people went to school and worked basically like they were in a normal environment as possible. The American government began to release Japanese after they were in the process of Americanization in these internment camps. Most were released after they had been determined to be loyal Americans. A few however were not released and had to spend time at one camp for the duration of the war. The people who were released back into society proved to be a valuable source to the American workforce, descried by most employers as very skilled and hardworking.
My question for this movie would be as to why they would put the people in camps for so long; not letting them lives their lives in a natural environment.
I believe that after the attacks on Pearl Harbor, the United States felt pressure and didn’t know exactly if they could trust the Japanese Americans because they were not sure of their loyalty. So to the Government their best option available would be to put the people in an area where they could not contact without being regulated, to insure them that there were no spies in the United States. There were probably better and more stable options, but when put in that type of predicament being under much duress I believe they came up with the most resourceful solution to the problem at hand at that present time.