１９４１年に起きた日本による真珠湾攻撃から後に、ジミーヒラサキの身分は日系人社会のリーダーとして、ＦＢＩ（Federal Bureau of Investigation）米連邦捜査局によって検挙された。それは国家安全に対しての「脅迫」の可能性ありとの罪であった。
１９４２年２月彼は司法省管理のノースダコタ州ビスマックにある抑留キャンプに送られた。（ここにはドイツ系ラテン系日系の「危険人物」とみられたものたちが収容されていた。）
また西部防衛指令部によって、ギルロイ地区から一番にジミーの妻や子供達はコロラド州グランドジャンクションに強制疎開させられ家族が分かれてしまった。（その後禁が解かれ一番先にギルロイに帰ってきた）
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After Pearl Harbor, Hirasaki's status as a leader of the Japanese-American community made him among the first rounded up by the FBI as a potential "threat" to national security. In February 1942, he was sent to the U.S. Justice Department's internment camp in Bismarck, N.D. His wife and children were forced to evacuate to Grand Junction, Colo.
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On February 14, 1942, Western Defense Command sent a memorandum to Secretary of War Henry Stimson recommending that "Japanese and other subversive elements" be removed from the West Coast region. This led President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 9066 on February 19, which gave U.S. military commanders the authority to designate "military areas" and to then exclude any or all people from them. On March 2, 1942 General DeWitt issued a proclamation that designated the western halves of Washington, Oregon and California, and the southern third of Arizona to be military areas from which Americans of Japanese ancestry would be excluded. Americans of German and Italian ancestry were also affected by restrictions and in some cases internment.
February 14, 1942: The U. S. Army’s Western Defense Command sends a memorandum to the Secretary of War recommending the evacuation of “Japanese and other subversive persons” from the Pacific Coast area. February 19, 1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066, which empowers the Secretary of War or any military commander authorized by him to designate “military areas” and exclude “any and all persons” from them. Shortly before signing the Executive Order, the President received a memorandum from his advisers which said, “In time of national peril, any reasonable doubt must be resolved in favor of action to preserve the national safety, not for the purpose of punishing those whose liberty may be temporarily affected by such action, but for the purpose of protecting the freedom of the nation, which may be long impaired, if not permanently lost, by nonaction.”
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（photo)In evacuation the Kiyoshi (Jimmy) Hirasaki family was first to leave the Western Defense Command from the Gilroy Section. After the lifting of the ban the family was again first--first to return to Gilroy. Jimmy farms 550 acres of vegetable land at Route 1, Box 156-F, Gilroy. Shown here are Jimmy standing with Fumiko, Midori and Mineko, seated left to right. During evacuation the Hirasakis contributed to the war effort by growing food at Grand Junction, Colorado. Now the entire family is back in California except Manabi, the 22 year old son who is overseas in the army. At the beautiful Hirasaki home are Mr. and Mrs. Hirasaki, Mineko, Fumiko, Aiko, Hisashi, Shinobu, and Midori. Michiko is a freshman at the University of California, Berkeley. -- Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru -- Gilroy, California. 7/15/45
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INTERNMENT CAMPS
27 U.S. Department of Justice Camps (most at Crystal City, Texas, but also Seagoville, Texas; Kooskia, Idaho; Santa Fe, NM; and Ft. Missoula, Montana) were used to incarcerate 2,260 "dangerous persons" of Japanese ancestry taken from 12 Latin American countries by the US State and Justice Departments. Approximately 1,800 were Japanese Peruvians. The U.S. government wanted them as bargaining chips for potential hostage exchanges with Japan, and actually did use. After the war, 1400 were prevented from returning to their former country, Peru. Over 900 Japanese Peruvians were deported to Japan. 300 fought it in the courts and were allowed to settle in Seabrook, NJ. Santa Fe, NM
Bismarck, ND Crystal City, TX
Missoula, MT Seagoville, Texas Kooskia, Idaho
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「当時のＦＢＩフーヴァー長官はは人種差別主義者として有名であり、当時のFBIの捜査官に有色人種をほとんど起用しなかった」