Alienable Citizenship: Race, Loyalty and the Law in the Age of American Concentration Camps, 1941-1971

Abstract

Whenever there shall be in existence ... an [internal security] emergency, the President, acting through the Attorney General, is hereby authorized to apprehend and by order detain ... each person as to whom there is reasonable ground to believe that such person probably will engage in, or probably will conspire with others to engage in, acts of espionage and sabotage. Emergency Detention Act § 103(a) (1950)