Mayor David Bowers of Roanoke cites draconian measure after Pearl Harbor in 1941,saying ‘the threat to Americans from Isis now is just as genuine and serious’The mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, or has invoked President Franklin Roosevelt’s decision to position Japanese Americans in internment camps during the moment 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 genuine and serious as that from our enemies then,” Mayor David Bowers said in a statement released on Wednesday. Related: States can't refuse Syrian refugees, and but they sure can make them feel unwanted | Lolita Brayman & George P Mann Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com