Trump Supporter Cites Japanese Internment As ‘Precedent’ For Muslim Registry

On the November 16 edition of Fox News’ The Kelly File, Higbie justified Trump’s possible Muslim registry by suggesting that there is some “precedent” for it because the United States interned Japanese-Americans during World War II. Which, you know, call it what you will. “You know better than to suggest that, that’s the kind of thing that gets people scared, Carl”. He cited what was done to the Japanese during World War II, which led Megyn Kelly to scold him for citing internment camps as precedent for something. And it’s probably the reason you might not have known that database existed at all.

And he said that while he hopes to be involved in the Trump administration, he has had no “formal conversations” with the president-elect’s team.

Largely considered one of the most egregious civil-liberties violations in American history, thousands of American citizens, many of them children, were forced to sleep in overcrowded, converted barracks and even horse stalls with no running water. The president-elect later attempted to distance himself from that statement, claiming on Twitter that a reporter had made those remarks.

Congressman Takano, D-Riverside, also denounced Higbie’s comments.

Between 1942 and 1946, 120,000 people of Japanese descent, the majority of who were US citizens, were sent to 10 internment camps throughout the country after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, according to the History Channel.

In 2011, CAIR welcomed the suspension of the “ineffective and burdensome program that was perceived as a massive profiling campaign targeting individuals based on their religion and ethnicity”.

Higbie isn’t the first to invoke internment camps in reference to Muslim immigrants in recent years.

An order in 1944 ruled that the War Relocation Authority could not detain US citizens shown to be loyal, effectively ending incarceration.

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President Ronald Raegan officially apologized to those who had been detained in 1988, and those who had been affected were compensated. Higbie shot back, “Well, we have in the past, we’ve done it based on race, we’ve done it based on religion, and we’ve done it based on region”.

The idea of a return to darker days is more than just hyperbole.

The Supreme Court upheld the order in its 1944 decision Korematsu v. He argued, instead, that “there is precedent for it” – a reference to Korematsu v.

“The protection of our Constitution is not conditional; it applies to all of us”, Sen.