Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. This order led to the assembly and evacuation and relocation of nearly 122,00 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry on the west coast of the United States. Their only crime was being of Japanese ancestry. The order was not targeted at any specific group, but it became the basis for the internment of citizens and non-citizens who were deemed a threat to the United States Government. The internees were sent to holding centers or later to be called internment camps. Even though the paper stated persons deemed a threat, the mass racism and paranoia due to the Pearl Harbor bombings the order was clearly aimed towards all people of Japanese Ancestry. Over the next five to six months, thousands of men, women and children were isolated and imprisoned from society. Seventy thousand were American Citizens who had committed no crimes; but, were put in the camps because of the fear of being Japanese sympathizers.