Criticizing his invocation of the infamous camps, in which up to 120,000 ethnically Japanese people, both citizens and non-citizens, were incarcerated until a year after the end of World War II, host Megyn Kelly told Higbie "That's the kind of stuff that gets people scared."President Ronald Raegan officially apologized to those who had been detained in 1988, and those who had been affected were compensated.Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who like Higbie is in Trump's wider circle of influencers, also floated the idea of a Muslim registry last Friday, saying it could form part of Trump's "extreme vetting" process.The fact that Kobach and Higbie only spoke about immigrants is itself a toning-down of Trump's previous rhetoric, which suggested all Muslim Americans, both immigrant applicants and natural born citizens, would be forced to register with the federal government for security measures.Trump surrogates are already citing Japanese internment camps from WW II as "precedent" for Muslim registry pic.twitter.com/DVnjtom0mc
— Brendan Karet (@bad_takes) November 17, 2016