Editing War Relocation Authority (section)

==End of the camps==
The West Coast was reopened to Japanese Americans on January 2, 1945 (delayed against the wishes of Dillon Myer and others until after the November 1944 election, so as not to impede Roosevelt's reelection campaign).<ref>{{cite web|last=Niiya |first=Brian |url=http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Franklin%20D.%20Roosevelt/ |title=Franklin D. Roosevelt |publisher=Densho Encyclopedia |access-date=November 11, 2014}}</ref> On July 13, 1945, Myer announced that all of the camps were to be closed between October 15 and December 15 of that year, except for Tule Lake, which held "renunciants" slated for deportation to Japan. (The vast majority of those who had renounced their U.S. citizenship later regretted the decision and fought to remain in the United States, with the help of civil rights attorney [[Wayne M. Collins]]. The camp remained open until the 4,262 petitions were resolved.)<ref name=tlc/> Despite wide-scale protests from inmates who had nothing to return to and felt unprepared to relocate yet again, the WRA began to eliminate all but the most basic services until those remaining were forcibly removed from camp and sent back to the West Coast.<ref name=Robinson/>

Tule Lake closed on March 20, 1946, and Executive Order 9742, signed by President [[Harry S. Truman]] on June 26, 1946, officially terminated the WRA's mission.<ref>"[https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/online-collections/war-relocation-authority-and-incarceration-of-japanese-americans The War Relocation Authority & the Incarceration of Japanese-Americans in World War II]," Truman Presidential Museum & Library. February 10, 2007.</ref>