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Japanese American internment is ‘precedent’ for national Muslim registry, prominent Trump backer says

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November 17, 2016 at 2:43 a.m. EST
Questions over the idea of creating a database of Muslim immigrants are coming up as President-elect Donald Trump forms his new administration. (Video: The Washington Post)

A former spokesman for a major super PAC backing Donald Trump said Wednesday that the mass internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was a “precedent” for the president-elect’s plans to create a registry for immigrants from Muslim countries.

During an appearance on Megyn Kelly’s Fox News show, Carl Higbie said a registry proposal being discussed by Trump’s immigration advisers would be legal and would “hold constitutional muster.”