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All axis aliens over 14 will have to carry identification cards with their picture and fingerprint on it.

A letter writer to the Ubyssey, the newspaper at the University of British Columbia in Canada, urged the removal of Japanese in British Columbia and said it would be in the bests interests of the Japanese and the people of the province because it…

A letter writer to the University of British Columbia's newspaper The Ubyssey asked a hypothetical question as to whether the Japanese in the province would defend the country in case of an invasion from Japan or would they join forces with the…

With the public now resigned to the war, there was now a feeling of vengeance and an increase in patriotism and enlistment in the armed forces, while the Japanese populace was told to stay off the streets because of possible physical attacks.

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer suggested that enemy aliens be placed in concentration camps because this is war and those aliens can't be trusted.

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer gave his opinion on the Japanese in America. (Letter is incomplete.)

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Inelligencer said that he agreed with Rep. Ford of California who suggested that all Japanese on the West Coast should be placed in concentration camps. He gave as his reason the Japanese colony in Davao in the…

U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle urged Americans to remember that enemy aliens are mostly loyal to the U.S. and to stop the attacks that were occurring on the West Coast on Japanese and occasionally some Chinese who were mistaken for Japanese.

A Japanese alien turned himself in to the immigration office to say that he had entered the U.S. illegally. Held in detention temporrily, he wrote a letter to another Japanese in which he said "to tell the truth," which made the immigration officials…

Martin Dies, U.S. representative from Texas, began an inquiry into possible Japanese fifth column activity on the West Coast. Especially cited were the Japanese language schools whose books showed patriotic feelings for Japan.