Opinion: In Trump’s America, we’re talking about internment again

To the editor: Is it not surreal that we would even have a serious conversation about an opinion held by Donald Trump supporter Carl Higbie or anyone else who sees the World War II internment of Japanese Americans as a precedent for anything Americans might consider doing in the future? (“The incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II does not provide a legal cover for a Muslim registry,” Opinion, Nov. 27)

Did we not just apologize and make reparations to the Japanese Americans who were victims of that egregious chapter in our history? What are we on the verge of becoming once more?

Bob Warnock, Los Angeles

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To the editor: The internment of Japanese Americans was a travesty. There has never been a single reported terrorist act perpetrated by any Japanese American.

The same cannot be said about acts of terrorism perpetrated by people from Mideast nations who live in our country. That is a fact.

Of course, this is not to say all Muslims should be on a watch list. However, the influx of people from the parts of the Middle East with histories of terrorism demands some kind of “extreme vetting.”

This is not a matter of racism as it was against Japanese Americans during World War II. It is rather a security issue.

Neil Snow, Manhattan Beach

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