Congress votes to spend $38 million to restore ten World War Two internment camps

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CAPITOL HILL - Internment camps where Japanese-Americans were kept behind barbed wire during World War Two will be preserved under a measure passed on Capitol Hill today.

As one of its last acts, the Republican-led Congress today sent President Bush legislation establishing a $38 million program of National Park Service grants. snip

The forced removal of Japanese-Americans was ordered by President Franklin Roosevelt two months after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

The camps held thousands of West Coast residents who were deemed a security risk because they had at least one-sixteenth Japanese ancestry.