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Original Question: What are the worst things the US has done and has admitted to?Yikes. That’s a tall order. And there are a lot of really good “(dis)honorable mentions” that could be made here. Slavery in the United States. Eugenics in the United States. The Trail of Tears. Not to mention all of the “less noble” aspects of “Manifest destiny.” But I’d humbly submit one dark chapter in the United States that—while by no means forgiven—has at the very least been the source of genuine (and relatively timely) contrition and restitution:The internment of Japanese Americans.For those of you who aren’t aware of it—seriously, we need to have a conversation about how that’s even possible…but we’ll save that for another time—the Japanese-American internment camps were the result of an order signed by President Roosevelt in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor: Executive Order 9066.Among other things, it authorized the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast, and sixty-two percent of whom were United States citizens.Dressed in a uniform marking his service in World War I, a U.S. Navy veteran from San Pedro prepares to obey his country’s final order—to turn himself in for internment at Santa Anita Assembly Center (April 1942). From there, he will be relocated to a permanent camp somewhere away from the West Coast—where he will ostensibly pose less of a “threat” to the United States and its war effort.Almost none of the “internees” were ever charged with a crime, and most were never given legal counsel or an opportunity to appeal their internment. Of the handful of Japanese-American who were criminally charged, almost all were arrested for nonviolent offenses related to attempting to evade the internment orders, or with draft resistance. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention—Japanese-Americans men who were subject to internment were still required to register for the draft, and faced incarceration and steep fines if they refused induction when called.Lt. Eugene Bogard, commanding officer of the Army Registration team, explains the purpose of registration to a group of Japanese Americans at Manzanar (February 11, 1943). All male internees between the ages of 18 and 38 were compelled to register.However, most Japanese-Americans did not resist the internment orders, and only 315 of them resisted the draft. And although a handful of internees challenged the order incarcerating them, all of them were unsuccessful—including the (in)famous landmark case of Korematsu v. United States. The entire episode was actually the subject of a Broadway musical by George Takei, himself a former internee, called Allegiance, which is loosely based on the experiences of Takei and his family.But for our purposes, rather than dwell on the heartbreak and injustices experienced during the war, I want to focus on Japanese-American life after World War II—specifically, the Japanese American redress and court cases.In 1948, Congress passed the Japanese-American Claims Act, which authorized the settlement of property loss claims by people of Japanese descent who were removed from the Pacific Coast area during the war. Among other things, the Claims Act recognized that Japanese-Americans who had been interned had suffered enormous losses of wealth and property as a result of internment:Businesses, stores, real estate and other property had been sold at a loss,[1]Farms and fields were allowed to lay fallow and rot,Furniture, tools, machinery, and other property had been lost, damaged, or stolen.Internees were instructed to take only what they could carry with them to the camps. Everything else was to be stored in warehouses provided by the government. After the war, it was discovered that these warehouses had been looted—and what the looters couldn’t take, was vandalized.But although Congress eventually appropriated $38 million to settle 23,000 claims for damages totaling $131 million, the program was largely a failure, because is excluded from its calculations things like lost opportunities, wages or interest—and because the terms of the act required documentation that many former inmates had ironically lost during their removal, such as deeds and titles, bills of sale, receipts, tax forms, pay stubs, and the like. Even when claimants could prove demonstrated losses due removal, payments were usually a fraction of the claimed damages.As America began to recover from the war, however, and with a gradual and greater cultural awakening to the consequences of not just the war and the sacrifices made but a larger social conversation about race and race relations, pressure to redress the injustices of the internment camps started to grow. In 1970, the Japanese American Citizens League endorsed a resolution by Edison Uno to urge Congress to compensate the survivors of the camps, many of whom were still alive. In 1979, Japanese-American lobbying groups pushed a bill through Congress to create an investigative committee to formally re-examine the internment camps and their consequences. A year later, in 1980 coram nobis orders overturned the convictions of Japanese-American defendants during the war, after new evidence was uncovered that had not only been withheld from the defense teams of Korematsu and other Japanese-American litigants but actively suppressed—including an original, unredacted report justifying internment by General John L. DeWitt that was so racist and inflammatory (even by the standards of 1942), that one of the authors ordered all copies destroyed and the offensive language redacted so as not to betray their racist intent.And that same year President Jimmy Carter appointed the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, for the express and explicit purpose of investigating Executive Order 9066, the camps, the conditions within, and more importantly the wartime rationales for them, and the consequences suffered by the people who endured them.In 1983, the CWRIC issued its findings in a 467-page report, entitled Personal Justice Denied—a scathing and damning indictment of the program, which concluded that the incarceration of Japanese Americans had not been justified by military necessity, and had in fact been the result of “racial prejudice, wartime hysteria, and a failure of political leadership” and that the justifications for the policy had relied on willful misrepresentations, omissions, and at times outright fabrications designed to justify an unjustifiable policy and defend an indefensible action. Not only that, but the CWRIC went a step further and recommended legislative action to address what they saw as a historic injustice, up to and including an official Government apology and redress payments to survivors.Four years later, H.R.442—named after the famous 442nd Infantry Regiment—was introduced to the 100th Congress by Rep. Thomas S. Foley (D-WA-5). And despite threats of a Presidential veto[2][2][2][2] and an attempt by Republicans to remove any mention of restitution,[3][3][3][3] the bill passed both House and Senate. Finally, in 1988, 46 years after the signing of Executive Order 9066, President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 into law.The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 attempted to several things at once:acknowledge the fundamental injustice of the evacuation, relocation, and internment of United States citizens and permanent resident aliens of Japanese ancestry during World War II;apologize on behalf of the people of the United States for the evacuation, relocation, and internment of such citizens and permanent resident aliens;provide for a public education fund to finance efforts to inform the public about the internment of such individuals so as to prevent the recurrence of any similar event;make restitution to those individuals of Japanese ancestry who were interned;make restitution to Aleut residents of the Pribilof Islands and the Aleutian Islands west of Unimak Island, in settlement of United States obligations in equity and at law, for –injustices suffered and unreasonable hardships endured while those Aleut residents were under United States control during World War II;personal property taken or destroyed by United States forces during World War II;community property, including community church property, taken or destroyed by United States forces during World War II; andtraditional village lands on Attu Island not rehabilitated after World War II for Aleut occupation or other productive use;discourage the occurrence of similar injustices and violations of civil liberties in the future; andmake more credible and sincere any declaration of concern by the United States over violations of human rights committed by other nations.Two years after that, on October 9, 1990, a ceremony was held to present the first reparations checks, totally $20,000 each and accompanied by a formal apology signed by President George H. W. Bush. And finally, in 2018—76 years after Executive Order 9066—the United States Supreme Court finally repudiated the Korematsu decision in Trump v. Hawaii.(Sort of).[4][4][4][4]It may not be the absolute worst thing the United States has ever done—for my money, I’m pretty sure “slavery” is still a top contender for that spot—but it is at least “one of” the worst things that this country has ever done. And more pertinent to this question, it is arguably the worst thing that America has ever done, admitted to, and—most importantly of all—actively tried to not only apologize for, but actually redress in the form of compensation and reparations to the victims.So…The End?P.S. Oh, and speaking of reparations…too soon?Footnotes[1] https://www.archives.gov/files/research/japanese-americans/case-files/146-35-270.pdf[2] House Votes Payments to Japanese War Internees (Published 1987)[2] House Votes Payments to Japanese War Internees (Published 1987)[2] House Votes Payments to Japanese War Internees (Published 1987)[2] House Votes Payments to Japanese War Internees (Published 1987)[3] House Votes Payments to Japanese War Internees (Published 1987)[3] House Votes Payments to Japanese War Internees (Published 1987)[3] House Votes Payments to Japanese War Internees (Published 1987)[3] House Votes Payments to Japanese War Internees (Published 1987)[4] The Travel Ban Decision and the Ghost of Korematsu[4] The Travel Ban Decision and the Ghost of Korematsu[4] The Travel Ban Decision and the Ghost of Korematsu[4] The Travel Ban Decision and the Ghost of Korematsu

I’m answering this question using terminology and procedure in CA. Other states have different names for judgment enforcement methods, different available remedies, and different procedures.That being said, here are suggestions:Obtain a Writ of Execution from the clerk of the court where your judgment was awarded. If the defendant has bank accounts, and you have the name and location of the bank(s), prepare instructions for the Sheriff of the county where judgment was entered to levy on the bank account(s). You can obtain detailed instructions from the Sheriff’s office.Obtain an Abstract of Judgment from the clerk of the court where your judgment was awarded. If the defendant owns a home or other real property, have the Abstract recorded with the county recorder of the county where the property is located. This doesn’t bring immediate money but puts a lien on the property in your favor. If the property is sold and there is equity, your lien must be paid before the defendant gets any proceeds.Obtain an order to garnish wages from the clerk of the court where your judgment was awarded. If your defendant works, have the order served by the Sheriff on the defendant’s employer. The employer is required to withhold certain amounts from defendant’s wages and remit them to the Sheriff who then remits to you.If you have no clue as to what assets defendant has or where defendant works, obtain an Order for Examination of Judgment Debtor and a hearing date from the court. You can also get a subpoena duces tecum where you list specific documents relating to assets that you want the defendant to provide you, such as bank statements, deeds to real property, pay stubs. A certain number of days prior to the hearing date, the Order and Subpena need to be served on defendant by someone other than you and a form Proof of Service needs to be filed with the court. You can question the defendant and review subpoenaed documents at the hearing.These suggestions do not contain every detail and may or may not be available in your jurisdiction, and there are defenses that could be raised against them. None of this is legal advice, but may give you some idea of what post-Judgment remedies might be available to you.

Here is a good list:A Florida resident has a true, fixed and permanent home in Florida. Certain actions establish residency; other actions only indicate intent to establish residency. Combining the two action groups result in a well-documented change of residency to Florida.Actions to establish residency—the minimum requirements:File a Declaration of Domicile: File a Declaration of Domicile in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court in which you intend to reside. You may download the declaration from your Florida County’s website. The counties require notarization of the form. The clerk’s office usually has a notary public on site. If the state of your former residence has a Declaration of Non-domicile, consider filing it. Some Florida counties include the Declaration of Domicile on the homestead property tax exemption form.Apply for a Homestead property tax exemption: Qualify for the homestead property tax exemption if you own your Florida residence. You have until March 1 to file for the homestead property tax exemption with the County Property Appraiser in your Florida county of residence. You may follow the links to the specific county property appraiser site to download the county’s homestead exemption application (Florida Dept. of Revenue). Call the appraiser’s office to see if you need to submit the form in person or if you can mail it in, as each county has a different procedure. You will need a copy of your deed, a Florida driver’s license, a Florida automobile registration (if applicable), your voter registration card and/or a filed Declaration of Domicile, and your social security number in order to complete the form. If you do not drive, you must get a Highway Patrol identification card issued at the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles office (DHSMV). For jointly owned property, both parties must furnish the proof.Register to Vote: After moving to Florida, register to vote as a resident of Florida. Contact the County Supervisor of Elections for residency requirements for voting and then register. Contact the county Board of Registrars of your former state of residence to notify the Board of your change of residence and instruct the Board to remove your name from your former county’s voting roll.Actions to indicate intent to establish residency:Florida driver’s license: Obtain a Florida driver’s license and plates for your automobile. You must visit a Florida DHSMV site in person to obtain an initial Florida driver’s license. Florida law requires identification, proof of date of birth (i.e. certified US birth certificate, valid US passport, Certificate of Naturalization), proof of residential address (i.e. deed, Florida voter registration card, Florida vehicle registration) and proof of social security number (i.e. social security card, W-2, pay stub) from all residents before issuing a driver’s license or identification card. If you’ve recently changed your name (i.e. marriage), be sure you’ve updated your records with the Social Security Administration before applying for a Florida license. Contact the local Florida DHSMV for driver’s license requirements (Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles).Income tax returns: File future Federal income tax returns using your Florida address. (IRS Service Center in Austin, TX if no payment due. IRS Service Center in Charlotte, NC if payment due.) If you have income sourced in a state outside of Florida (i.e. your former state of residence), file a nonresident income tax return in the state of the sourced income if that state has an individual income tax.Wills and estate planning: If you do not have a will or you have a will executed in your former state of residence, contact an attorney to draw a will declaring Florida as your state of legal residence. Execute your estate planning documents in Florida.Tax agency: Notify taxing officials of your change of residence by either calling the state’s Department of Revenue or, if your state of former residence has a change of address form, filing the change of address form. Most states’ part-year resident returns provide a place on the return to indicate your period of residency ending within the tax year.Physical presence: Be physically present in Florida for more than half of the year. Own or lease, and occupy, a dwelling in Florida.Stocks and ownership interests: If you own corporate stocks or own a Partnership/LLC interest outside of a broker account, notify the entities of your change of residence. This will not only indicate your intention to establish Florida residency, it will ensure you receive your Forms 1099 and Schedules K-1 to assist you in preparing your income tax returns. Transfer financial (i.e. securities, bank) accounts from your state of former residence to Florida. Change your mailing address to Florida for any out-of-state accounts (i.e. brokerage accounts, bank accounts) you maintain.Safe deposit box: Rent a safe deposit box in Florida to hold all your valuables.Contracts and other documents: In all future contracts and other documents containing reference to your state of residency, cite Florida as your state of residency.Club memberships: Withdraw membership in any club outside of Florida if a requirement of membership includes residency within the state of the club’s location. Change an out-of-state club membership to a “nonresident” membership, when possible.Religious affiliations: Transfer your religious affiliations to Florida.Communications: Declare Florida your state of residence in all oral and written communications concerning your residence or domicile.Hotel registrations: Register at hotels as a resident of Florida.Business: Transact business in Florida.Social Security: Notify the Social Security Administration of your change of address.Passports: Use your Florida address for your passport.Credit cards: Use your Florida address for your charge accounts.Insurance: Register your Florida address with your insurance company and Medicare.Checks: Have all income, pension, dividend/interest checks and other payments mailed to your Florida address.