B2431 wrote:

Germans and Italian residents were also detained. Ellis Island even
became a detention camp.

German-American and Italian-American citizens of the United States were not
interned en masse; Japanese-American citizens were. Not just alien
residents, mind you, but American citizens, some going back several
generations, were locked up in camps without the slightest hint of due
process. They were even forbidden to move out of the prohibited areas
voluntarily; only internment was acceptable.

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