Va. mayor suggests internment camps over Syrian refugees

Va. mayor suggests internment camps over Syrian refugees

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A Roanoke mayor is getting national attention after citing the use of internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II to justify suspending the relocation of Syrian refugees to his city in Virginia.

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Will the internees be allowed to join the army of the host nation like the Japanese interned

men did during World War II?

However, I don't think this is a good idea for a lot of reasons. The first one is that this likely 
would only tend to create more terrorists over time not less. So, sort of like Guantanamo it 
would be counter productive.