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  1. Oct 2025
    1. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to provide for residents of any such area who are excluded therefrom, such transportation, food, shelter, and other accommodations as may be necessary,

      The government would give basic needs to the people they forced out, basically setting up the internment camps.

    2. all Executive Departments, independent establishments and other Federal Agencies, to assist the Secretary of War or the said Military Commanders in carrying out this Executive Order, including the furnishing of medical aid, hospitalization, food, clothing,

      All government departments had to help with the internment process providing supplies and services.

    3. This order shall not be construed as modifying or limiting in any way the authority heretofore granted under Executive Order No. 8972,

      This section says the new order doesn’t cancel older wartime orders. It just adds more power for the military to act on the West Coast.

    4. I hereby further authorize and direct the Secretary of War and the said Military Commanders to take such other steps as he or the appropriate Military Commander may deem advisable to enforce compliance with the restrictions applicable to each Military area hereinabove authorized to be designated, including the use of Federal troops and other Federal Agencies, with authority to accept assistance of state and local agencies.

      The military could use soldiers and police to make sure people followed these orders.

    5. Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of War, and the Military Commanders whom he may from time to time designate, whenever he or any designated Commander deems such action necessary or desirable, to prescribe military areas in such places and of such extent as he or the appropriate Military Commander may determine, from which any or all persons may be excluded,

      FDR allows the military to mark certain areas as “military zones.” Anyone could be forced to leave those zones if the military said so.