SENATE RESOLUTION
8616
By Senators Hasegawa, Fortunato, Saldaña, Wagoner, and Warnick
WHEREAS, On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which authorized the United States military to forcibly remove and incarcerate more than 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast, including 12,000 Japanese American residents of Washington State; and
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