The camps were places where Japanese Americans were sent. They had to leave their homes on short notice. The camps started because the US goverment thought that the Japanese Americans might be spies.

His prespective was that they were forced to do labor. "The first thing we had to do was make our own mattresses."

Source: YouTube, Japanese Internment during WW II

His perspective was just to protect his family. "As soon as the war broke out the F.B.I. came and they just come to the house and they said, 'You have to come. All the Japanese have to go.'"

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The people in the camps felt like they were prisoners. "It was a prison indeed . . . There was barbed wire along the top [of the fence] and because the soldiers in the guard towers had machine guns, one would be foolish to try to escape."

Source: Biography.com, Japanese Internment Camp Survivors: In Their Own Words

"The stall was about ten by twenty feet and empty except for three folded army cots on the floor. Dust, dirt, and wood shavings covered the linoleum that had been laid over manure-covered boards, the smell of horses hung in the air, and the whitened corpses of many insects still clung to the hastily white-washed walls."

Source: Biography.com, Japanese Internment Camp Survivors: In Their Own Words

“We’re afraid they look at us and think we’re Japanese. Our face is our crime. Some still blame us for everything.” Ernesto understood. Immigrants were often accused of false things.

Ernesto can relate to the this because he is an immigrant. He was accused of things just because he was an immigrants, like when they were playing a game.