Read the passage from Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family, by Yoshiko Uchida.

Excerpt from Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family

By Yoshiko Uchida

As soon as we got off the bus, we were directed to an area beneath the grandstand where we registered and filled out a series of forms. Our baggage was inspected for contraband, a cursory medical check made, and our living quarters assigned. We were to be housed in Barrack 16, Apartment 40. Fortunately, some friends who had arrived earlier found us and offered to help us locate our quarters.

It had rained the day before and the hundreds of people who had trampled on the track had turned it into a miserable mass of slippery mud. We made our way on it carefully, helping my mother who was dressed just as she would have been to go to church. She wore a hat, gloves, her good coat, and her Sunday shoes, because she would not have thought of venturing outside our house dressed in any other way.

What is the most probable reason the author included this description of the family’s reception at the camp?

A.
The U.S. government was looking for suspects in the Pearl Harbor bombing.

B.
The U.S. government was screening the Japanese Americans for serious illnesses.

C.
The U.S. government was suspicious of all Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

D.
The U.S. government was interested in the Japanese Americans’ safety in the camp.