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The ‘Precedent’ for Trump’s Muslim Registry is Japanese Internment Camps

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 17, 2016

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By Mark Sumner

INDEPENDENCE, CA - DECEMBER 09:  PA vintage photograph is displayed at Manzanar War Relocation Center at Manzanar National Historic Site on December 9, 2015 near Independence, California. Recent presidential campaign rhetoric against Muslims in the wake of terror attacks has drawn comparisons to World War II era incarceration of Japanese Americans. Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten internment camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were incarcerated from 1942 to 1945 during World War II.  (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Vintage photograph displayed at Manzanar War Relocation Center

There’s absolutely no doubt that the white nationalist forces on the Trump team are already moving to create some kind of “Muslim registry.” Some have suggested this will be a somewhat invisible process, with the vast spying effort of the NSA dedicated to sifting those who have given money, attended events, or perhaps have last names that made them suspect…

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