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Like many of my friends involved with the Japanese-American community, I am pretty shocked by Carl Higbie’s suggestion that Japanese internment camps are a precedent for establishing a Muslim registry. It finally dawned on me that this was actually planned and deliberately crafted to appeal to a particular demographic of the electorate. Higbie’s comments were not accidental, and his continued refusal to retract this statement reminded me of disturbing reports issued during the primaries.
In early 2016, articles published about polling data indicated that voters were directly asked if they approved of “Japanese internment camps.” In Iowa, 48 percent of Trump voters approved of the use of these camps. In South Carolina, 32 percent of Trump voters supported internment. The question I asked myself is “Why?” Why would this question even be asked?
Voters were asked how they feel about the use of presidential executive orders, and follow-up questions ask their view of various historic executive orders, including the Emancipation Proclamation, the desegregation of the Army and Roosevelt’s infamous Executive Order 9066 that led to Japanese internment.
One can only speculate on the motives behind Higbie’s statements, but the Trump campaign and those with designs behind the Muslim Registry have seen this polling information. They know that the idea of Japanese internment as a “precedent” for a Muslim Registry is accepted among a specific group of voters, and they will continue to press this idea because it is becoming normalized as political leverage that appeals to the Trump base.
This is not just the random rambling of a crazy guy. This is a carefully crafted strategy designed to take away the civil liberties of citizens of the United States.
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