If Japanese-Americans had all been deported from America during WWII...

[Boojatta]

then would they have a right to return?

[mainegreen]

1. Yes.

Even if they weren't officially deported, but fled out of fear.

This should be fun.

[Boojatta]

4. Could you explain why?

I'm not opposed to your answer, but inevitably some people will give answers that conflict with your answer. If you appeal to some general principle and they merely provide opinions with no basis, then your response will be better than theirs. More importantly, your response will open up avenues for discussing the topic.

[mainegreen]

9. Plenty of reasons.

1) Taking away citizenship without prove of something like treason, is equivalent to stealing property.
2) Your right to live in your land is a right. This is similar to the above argument, but different in the sense that it goes beyond citizenship. You can have an indigenous right, granted to you not by citizenship, but by historical precedence to live somewhere. The longer you can claim historical residence in a land, the stronger that right. Note: this is not a right as defined by law, but a right as defined by justice; more valid IMHO
3) Due process; without it, any actions or implications that occur after are rather suspect.
4) It's the human way to be.

To name a few.

:shrug:

[Boojatta]

10. How about children of deportees?

Would they have an automatic right of return or would it depend? For example, I imagine that some people might say that it should depend on whether or not both parents had been deported from America merely because their ancestors were Japanese. I imagine that some people might say that it should depend on whether or not the children were born before their parents were deported.

[datasuspect]

2. you cannot deport a united states citizen from the united states

that would in effect make them a stateless person.

you can imprison them though.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Sure you can.

Thousands of Mexican-Americans citizens were unlawfully deported in the thirties.

Hell, Ron Paul and other republicans have been running on the issue.

[Boojatta]

6. What are the odds that a court challenge...

would have led to judgment and enforcement of that judgment before the deportation occurred?

[Crunchy Frog]

5. Yes.

[piedmont]

7. Where would they have been deported to? nt

[Boojatta]

8. Maybe to a place that was governed by "an S.O.B. who is our S.O.B."

[DadOf2LittleAngels]

11. Its not as simple as either side says

Lets say Japan warned a bunch of Japanese-Americans living in Hawaii that the attack was coming and urged them to get out of the way. The Japanese on Hawaii left the island and moved to Japan to get out of the way so the US could be attacked should *they* be let back in?