A prominent Donald Trump surrogate has suggested that the internment of Japanese Americans during world war two has set the precedent for a potential Muslim registry, as advocated by president-elect’s transition team. Quartz reports: Carl Higbie, a former Navy SEAL and a spokesman for the pro-Trump Great America PAC, made the argument on Megyn Kelly’s Fox News show Wednesday (Nov. 16) night, explaining that a Muslim registry would “hold constitutional muster.” Trump surrogates are already citing Japanese internment camps from WW II as “precedent” for Muslim registry pic.twitter.com/DVnjtom0mc — Brendan Karet (@bad_takes) 17 November 2016 “I know the ACLU is gonna challenge it, but I think it’ll pass, and we’ve done it with Iran back—back a while ago. We did it during World War II with Japanese, which, you know, call it what you will, maybe—,” said Higbie, before Kelly interjected. “Come on. You’re not—you’re not proposing we go back to the days of internment camps, I hope,” asked Kelly, who continually pushed back on Higbie’s suggestion. But he held firm: “Look, the president needs to protect America first, and if that means having people that are not protected under our constitution have some sort of registry so we can [...]
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