li6zabel4vin li6zabel4vin 02-02-2017 History contestada In 1988, Congress voted to pay $20,000 to each of the surviving Americans of Japanese descent who were interned during World War II because the danger of war with Japan no longer existed all of the interned Japanese Americans eventually became American citizens the World Court ordered the United States to pay reparations many Americans believed the internment was unjust and unnecessary