The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I just thought of another thing to add to my post above. During WWII, we put Japanese Americans into camps. Did that make us any safer? No. Was it a knee jerk reaction to Pearl Harbor? Yes. Did people feel safer after we did that? Probably. Was it right of us to do? Absolutely not.

Can you continue on this thought to help explain its relevance to the illegal immigration debate? Not being snarky, just not getting what you mean.

I think it would have been completely appropriate to view illegal Japanese immigration as a threat during WWII. I don't see anybody advocating any kind of poor treatment for legal immigrants in the current debate.