Posted on 01/31/2017 9:42:28 AM PST by ColdOne
Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) on Monday compared congressional Republicans' acceptance of President Trump's executive order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries to lawmakers who didn't fight against the Japanese internment camps during World War II.
The history of the U.S. government forcing Japanese Americans to live in camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor is personal for Takano: His parents and grandparents were among the people in those camps.
"History often forces us to ask ourselves: How would we have acted if we lived in that moment?" Takano mused in a fiery House floor speech. "Through the president's recent executive order, we no longer have to wonder."
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You mean those DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S JAPANESE INTERNMENT CAMPS?..................
I would double down on that one. Say the US was justified in its actions then, and justified in its actions now.
That’s just laughable
Someone needs to ask this jerkov what “open borders” during WW II would have meant. You want to allow Japanese and German “refugees” into the USA? How many agents and provocateurs do you think might have been included in that group? Seriously, this guy holds public office and he’s not any smarter than that?
You stole my post.
Trump’s in for 1400 days no matter what anyone says, protests, cries about, etc.
#### em.
No comparison, Rep.
Trump is keeping people out until they can be screened.
FDR imprisoned women and children.
at least they are past denial and up to bargaining stage.
FDR’s fault.
Yeah, FDR was a Republican, and after WWII the Republican President, Harry Truman, wouldn’t let Jews in to the USA.
The Trail of Tears with the Cherokee Indians, blacks enslaved, and Japanese Americans put into internment camps all had Democrat politicians fingerprints all over those dreadful episodes in American history. When will people of color wake up and realize the party that most of them belong to today has historically and continues presently to mistreat and use them for their selfish political purposes.
Don’t be so hard on Mark, he is just being consistent.
He was also critical of President B.O., Clinton and Carter on the same issue, right?
So the Dems send out their token Japanese guy to spew this vomit? Great. I’ve read a lot about WWII and I’ve never seen anything about the government importing Japanese into America during that war. This boy needs a history book.
Restricting access to our country is NOT the same as rounding up citizens (and legal immigrants) in concentration camps.
Keeping OUT is normal.
When they start keeping us IN, call me.
Not a “ban”, never was a “ban”. This is a moratorium, until things are under control, which up to now has been distinctly lacking.
If you refuse to be part of the solution, then you are part of the problem. An insight that is by no means original with me, but has been repeated many times and in many ways over the ages.
Interesting enough, Japan refuses entry to countries with Islam rule governments. Ever hear of a terrorism problem in Japan from Jihadists?
A slight tangent here.
I will go against the grain of FR here, but the Internment was just. it prevented acts of espionage and sabotage. The MAGIC intercepts demonstrate the development of a spy ring between Japan and Japanese Nationals and Japanese-Americans. Reading the intercepts, I believe any President would have ordered the Internment.
I’ve always said if it prevented one act of sabotage, it was worth it.
If you actually read the intercepts, it probably started in early 1941, and seems to have identified individuals in these communities who would work with the Japanese.
Check it out here, doubt if your library has it.
https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Intelligence-Evacuation-Japanese-Residents/dp/0960273611
E. B. T.
I have a friend whose father wasn’t allowed to serve in the European Theater during WWII because his parents were German immigrants.
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