Paris attacks

[Lamplighter]

Virginia mayor cites Japanese internment camps (favorably) in making case for halting Syrian refugees.
Washington Post -Amber Phillips - November 18

Twice in one day now, politicians have evoked the powerful memory of
the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II to argue about
whether the United States should continue plans to resettle 10,000 Syrian
refugees after the terrorist attacks in Paris.

One politician, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), pretty eloquently argued
that closing the doors to these Syrian refugees would be a mistake driven
by the same kind of irrational fear that led to the unlawful imprisonment
and stripping of property of U.S. citizens based solely on their ethnic heritage.

But then there are even some Democrats that are running scared.

To Wit: from today's letter of Mayor David A. Browers (Roanoke, VA)
as he requested :

"...all Roanoke Valley governments and non-governmental agencies
to suspend and delay any further Syrian refugee assistance
until these serious hostilities and atrocities end, or at the very least until
regarded as under control by U.S. authorities, and normalcy is restored.

"I'm reminded that Franklin D. Roosevelt felt compelled to to sequester
Japanese foreign nationals after the bombing of Pearl Harbor,
and it appears that the threat of harm to America from [the Islamic State]
now is just as real and serious a threat as that from our enemies then," he said.