Patricia Arquette has launched an attack on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, claiming that he would plunge the United States back into its days of internment camps.

The Oscar-winning actress' comments on Saturday referred to Trump's vow to deport 11million undocumented immigrants living in the United States if he is voted in as president.

She compared it to when tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans were interred during World War II.

Arquette. 48, said that the nation 'cannot return to anything like' the Japanese internment camps and said that the country can do without the billionaire's brand of 'Make America Great Again'.

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Patricia Arquette has raised fears that Donald Trump could bring internment camps back to the United States after he vowed to deport 11million undocumented immigrants living in the United States

Arquette called internment camps 'not a great part of American history', and that returning 'to anything like that' would be 'a blight on the honor of America'

When asked about Trump at a gala dinner on Saturday at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, she told Daily Mail Online: 'It is funny because we are here at MOCA.

'Right next door is the Japanese American Museum where they have a building left from an internment camp from when Americans interned Japanese Americans.

'And they cannot return to anything like that. It is such a blight on the honor of America. We don't need that kind of "Make America Great Again".

'America is great. And that is not a great part of American history.'

During World War II, in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, President Franklin D Roosevelt ordered the internment of more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast.

Sixty-two per cent of the internees were US citizens and the move was later widely considered to be based on racism rather than any security risk posed by Japanese Americans.

The episode is still seen widely as a stain on US history, and Boyhood star Arquette believes Trump is leading the country down a similar path.

Asked if she would leave the country as other celebrities have vowed to do if Trump is voted into the White House, however, she said: 'I understand that sentiment, but someone is going to have to set up soup kitchens and help people.

'So you are going to have to stay around and help everybody who is getting rounded up.'

Arquette also said she fears that the United States could enter a new depression if Trump is elected president.

She said the billionaire tycoon believes that US workers are paid too much, yet many people are 'struggling to feed their kids'. Arquette is estimated by Celebrity Net Worth to have a net worth of $24 million.

'Trump said American workers are already paid too much,' she said. 'There's a lot of people that are struggling to feed their kids and they don't have enough money for one little emergency, one extra bill.

'That would just be devastating. It would be like having the Depression all over again.'

Arquette (pictured with husband Eric White) made her comments at the MOCA Annual Gala in Los Angeles on Saturday

THE TRAGIC EXPERIENCE OF 110,000 JAPANESE AMERICANS DURING WWII In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, rumors spread across the United States of a plot among Japanese-Americans to sabotage the war effort. Because of the spreading rumors, the US Department of Treasury froze assets of citizens and immigrants who were born in Japan, and the Department of Justice arrested about 1,500 religious and community leaders who were seen as potential enemies, according to Britannica. US military commanders petitioned for Secretary of War Henry Stimson to intervene, and pressured the Roosevelt administration into removing more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast. President Franklin D Roosevelt then signed Executive Order 9066, which forced the thousands of people of Japanese ancestry - half of whom were children - to leave their homes and quit their jobs to move to camps in remote areas of the United States. It was there that they lived in squalid, communal cabins and did hard labor for $5 a day. During World War II, in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, President Franklin D Roosevelt ordered the deportation and incarceration of more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast They were put into ten camps, located in: Amache, Colorado; Gila River, Arizona; Heart Mountain, Wyoming; Jerome, Arkansas; Manzanar, California; Minidoka, Idaho; Poston, Arizona; Rohwer, Arkansas; Topaz, Utah; and Tule Lake, California. Some died because they were unable to cope in the 100-degree Fahrenheit desert conditions and freezing nights. Sixty-two per cent of the internees were US citizens, while a third of those in the camps had been born in Japan and were not allowed to own land in some states or become naturalized US citizens, according History.com. The final internment camp wasn't closed until 1946. A 1948 law provided reimbursement for property losses for people who were held in the camps. It was not until 1988, however, that President Ronald Reagan and Congress apologized to those interned and awarded $20,000 restitution payments to each survivor of the camps. Sixty-two per cent of the internees were US citizens and the move was later widely considered to be based on racism rather than any security risk posed by Japanese Americans

Arquette used her Oscar acceptance speech to voice concerns about wage inequality for women when she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2015 for her role in Boyhood.

Speaking at Saturday's gala, Arquette said she believed her speech had 'probably' affected roles she had been offered since.

Several other celebrities, including George Clooney and Lena Dunham, have also spoken out in opposition of Trump.

Clooney, a steadfast Democrat who has helped raise millions for Hillary Clinton's campaign, spoke out against Donald Trump during a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, where he is promoting his new film Money Monster.

'There's not going to be a President Donald Trump,' said Clooney, who held a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton last month in Los Angeles where tickets reportedly went for $353,400 per couple.

'That's not going to happen. Fear is not going to be something that drives our country. We're not going to be scared of Muslims or immigrants or women. We're not actually afraid of anything.'

Clooney previously spoke out against Trump at the Toronto Film Festival last September, and his comments about Mexicans, saying; 'Anyone who says intolerant words should be laughed at, and I think that's what history will do.'

Dunham went so far to say she would leave the country if Trump is elected president.

She said last month at the Matrix Awards that 'I know a lot of people have been threatening to do this, but I really will.'

'I know a lovely place in Vancouver and I can get my work done from there,' she added.

The star of HBO's Girls has been a vocal Hillary Clinton supporter, campaigning with the Democratic front-runner on several occasions.

Cher, Eddie Griffin, Barry Diller, Al Sharpton, Jon Stewart, Samuel L Jackson and Omari Hardwick have all publicly discussed moving outside the United States if Trump wins.

Arquette's comments on the real estate mogul came at the same event in which political artist Shepard Fairey, who designed the 'Obama Hope' campaign poster, questioned Trump and his policies. He said that if he were to create a similar campaign poster for Trump, it'd read 'Manifest Density'

Arquette's comments on the real estate mogul came at the same event in which political artist Shepard Fairey, who designed the 'Obama Hope' campaign poster, questioned Trump and his policies.

He blasted the presumptive GOP nominee for having no policies and being a likely winner in the 'race to the bottom'.

Asked if he were to create a poster commenting on Trump's standing, similar to his Obama work, Fairey said: 'It would probably just say "Manifest Density". I think in the race to the bottom he is going to be the winner.

'The density that allows facts not to penetrate, he is the poster guy for that... showbiz, not science, not fact.'

Fairey added: 'The US is a place for a lot of different ideas and I think that is great. I am not an isolationist.

'I don't want to just surround myself with people that agree with me. And sometimes adversity brings out the best conversations and the best in people and other times it brings out the darkest in people.

'I am an optimist. Whatever happens with Trump maybe it is going to make people take a step back, take a deep breath and think where they could make a better case for an alternative.'

Fairey said that Bernie Sanders is his favorite candidate, buts admit he may not gain the Democratic vote.

He said: 'I did a T-shirt graphic for Bernie, that's my guy. I don't know if Bernie is going to make it. But he has shifted the conversation.'

Fairey praised Sanders' drive for 'pure-form democracy' and reducing the leaders' campaign away from money.

He and Arquette attended the gala to celebrate the recent exhibition Don't Look Back: the 1990s curated by Helen Molesworth.