No! Japanese Interment Can Never be Used as Precedent for Any Policy
The other day the Kelly File was on, and Megyn was interviewing President-Elect Donald Trump supporter former Navy SEAL Carl Higbie on the legality of registration for immigrants from Muslim countries. He then mentioned Iran as an example of this being done in the past, along with the Japanese during World War II. When pressed on the morality of Japanese Internment, Higbie did some fancy word dancing saying, There is precedent for it, and I’m not saying I agree with it…Look the President needs to protect America first, and if that means having people that are not protected under our constitution have some sort of registry so we can understand, until we can identify the true threat and where its coming from, I support it. I think Higbie is dead wrong and off his rocker. Japanese Internment was nothing short of unjustified incarceration of multitudes of innocent people. It is a moral outrage. The only precedent it makes is what not to do ! It would be a mistake for President Ele...