Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach told Reuters in an interview yesterday that Donald Trump‘s policy advisors are considering implementing a registry for anyone that comes into the United States from Muslim nations as part of Trump’s “extreme vetting.”
Former Navy SEAL and Trump supporter Carl Higbie spoke with Megyn Kelly about this tonight and said there is certainly precedent for action like this to be taken.
Kelly brought up the criticism that this is a slippery slope and that a system like this could end up being abused.
Higbie made it clear he thinks the vast majority of Muslims are not bad people, but because there are some who align with an “extreme ideology,” it would be wise to “keep tabs” on people coming into the country from certain places.
“We’ve done it with Iran back a while ago,” he said, “we did it during World War II with the Japanese.”
Kelly bewilderedly responded, “Come on, you’re not proposing we go back to the days of internment camps, I hope.”
He said he is not and merely made the point he was trying to point to precedent, which led Kelly to say this:
“You can’t be citing Japanese internment camps as precedent for anything the president-elect is gonna do!”
