The mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, has invoked President Franklin Roosevelt’s decision to place Japanese Americans in internment camps during the second world war as a way to justify keeping Syrian refugees out of the US.
“I’m reminded that President Franklin D Roosevelt felt compelled to sequester Japanese foreign nationals after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and it appears that the threat of harm to Americans from Isis now is just as real and serious as that from our enemies then,” Mayor David Bowers said in a statement released on Wednesday.
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