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    The Renunciation Act of 1944 (Public Law 78-405, 58 Stat. 677) was an act of the 78th Congress regarding the renunciation of United States citizenship...
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  • monetary systems of the post-war world. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Public Health Service Act and the Renunciation Act of 1944 into law....
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  • Joseph Kurihara (category United States Army personnel of World War I)
    who renounced U.S. citizenship under the Renunciation Act of 1944 in protest of the internment. After the end of World War II, he emigrated to Japan, where...
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    Executive Order 9066 (category Executive orders of Franklin D. Roosevelt)
    Presidential Proclamation 2526 and the Alien Enemy Act, part of the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798. The text of Executive Order 9066 was as follows: Executive...
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    War Relocation Authority (category Internment of Japanese Americans)
    as administration sympathizers. When the Renunciation Act was passed in July 1944, 5,589 (over 97 percent of them Tule Lake inmates) expressed their resentment...
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  • American internee who renounced U.S. citizenship under the Renunciation Act of 1944 in protest of the internment Katsushi Kurihara (born 1977), Japanese football...
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    Tule Lake War Relocation Center (category Asian-American history of California)
    July 1, the Renunciation Act of 1944, drafted by Attorney General Francis Biddle, was passed into law; U.S. citizens could, during time of war, renounce...
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    Gila River War Relocation Center (category History of Pinal County, Arizona)
    Arkansas when that facility closed in 1944. It became Arizona's fourth-largest city, with a peak population of 13,348. Some of the incarcerees died en route to...
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    government passed the Renunciation Act of 1944, a law that made it possible for Nisei and Kibei to renounce their American citizenship. A total of 5,589 detainees...
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    repeals 8 U.S.C. § 1481(a)(6) (the Renunciation Act of 1944) The bill contains provisions for enhancing interior enforcement of immigration laws, including requiring...
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  • 13, 2020. Until 1986 the US had never forgiven the act of illegal immigration. Immigration Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101–649, 104 Stat. 4978, enacted November...
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    law, "relinquishment" and "renunciation" are terms used in Subchapter III, Part 3 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. §§ 1481–1489)...
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  • is performed voluntarily and with the intention of relinquishing U.S. nationality. "Renunciation of U.S. Nationality Abroad". travel.state.gov. Retrieved...
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    Manzanar (category Protected areas of Inyo County, California)
    acres of farms producing more than 80 percent of the produce used by the camp. In early 1944, a chicken ranch began operation, and in late April of the...
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    Sharp Park Detention Station (category History of San Mateo County, California)
    approximately 2,500 detainees. During the Great Depression, the area east of the Sharp Park Golf Course was used as a State Emergency Relief Administration...
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    Historic Site Act authorizing the Granada War Relocation Center to become part of the National Park System. It was formally established as part of the National...
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  • Taneyuki Harada (category American artists of Japanese descent)
    number of pen drawings, and in 1945, Harada held his first solo exhibition in the ironing room of block 5. In 1944, the Renunciation Act of 1944 was passed...
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    / 38.674042; -121.366481 Camp Kohler was located in the northeast corner of unincorporated Sacramento County, California, United States, until it was...
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  • Wayne M. Collins (category American people of Irish descent)
    coerced into renouncing their American citizenship under the Renunciation Act of 1944 of their legal rights. On November 13, 1945, Collins filed two mass...
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    Go for Broke Monument (category Internment of Japanese Americans)
    now let me sign H.R. 442." – President Ronald Reagan, Civil Liberties Act of 1988 "The Nisei saved countless lives and shortened the war by two years"...
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    Minidoka National Historic Site (category Protected areas of Jerome County, Idaho)
    Population at the Minidoka camp declined to 8,500 at the end of 1943, and to 6,950 by the end of 1944. The camp formally closed on October 28, 1945. On February...
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    Santa Anita Ordnance Training Center (category Installations of the United States Army in California)
    an infiltration course, a type of obstacle course. The range closed in 1944 and the land lease ended in 1950. Most of troops trained at the range were...
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    Poston War Relocation Center (category History of La Paz County, Arizona)
    director, and set and production designer Doris Matsui (born 1944), member of the U.S. House of Representatives George Matsumoto (1922–2016), architect and...
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    The site was 30 acres of land on Central Avenue at Edison. For World War II the camp housed 500 German POWs starting in October 1944. The camp started in...
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    Topaz War Relocation Center (category World War II on the National Register of Historic Places)
    structural damage to 75 buildings in 1944. Temperatures could reach below freezing from mid-September until the end of May. The average temperature in January...
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  • Hiroshi Kashiwagi (category American writers of Japanese descent)
    passage of the Renunciation Act of 1944, Kashiwagi and others at Tule Lake renounced their U.S. citizenship under government coercion. After the end of World...
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    Propaganda for Japanese-American internment (category History of racial segregation in the United States)
    Japanese-American internment is a form of propaganda created between 1941 and 1944 within the United States that focused on the relocation of Japanese Americans from...
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    The Kellogg–Briand Pact or Pact of Paris – officially the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy – is a 1928 international...
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  • Executive Order 9102 (category Legal history of the United States)
    be removed were "persons of Japanese ancestry." Milton S. Eisenhower, previously an official of the United States Department of Agriculture, was chosen...
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    southeastern Arkansas, near the town of Jerome in the Arkansas Delta. Open from October 6, 1942, until June 30, 1944, it was the last American concentration...
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