During World War II, the US government sent people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps based on

The US government forcibly removed people of Japanese ancestry from designated military exclusion zones, especially along the West Coast, during World War II. The policy was based on where people lived, not how long they had lived in the United States or whether they had ever lived in Japan. Therefore, the correct choice is whether they lived in an exclusion zone.

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