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And his family, like thousands of other japanese americans, were interned in camps during world war ii. >> kurt: in the beginning of the twentieth century there was a lot of anti-asian prejudice. >> anthony: "there are too many, and they're taking our jobs," and the usual -- >> kurt: "some of them are buying our land." >> anthony: things got really bad for the japanese of course, after pearl harbor with -- it was an interment program. >> kurt: so they had a list of all the names. >> anthony: kids too! >> kurt: yes, children too. they all had to go walking to the train station in downtown san j...

Refugees today, many rejected jewish refugees simply because they weren't christian. that is not the only historical parallel now being drawn. yesterday as we've discussed on the show, the democratic mayor of roanoke, virginia david bowers explained his opposition to allowing syrian refugees in his city by pointing approvingly to the internment of japanese americans following the pearl harbor attacks when anti-japanese hysteria broke out among the american public. >> it was that hysteria in the months following december 7th that led to the forced evacuation of 120,000 japanese-americans and th...

Parents from the west coast. they were ordered from their homes, sent first to assembly centers and then on to ten camps away from the coast on desolate federal lands far from military installations. 120,000 people put behind barbed wire simply because of the color of their skin and a hysteria that grew from ignorance, fear, and racism. >> actor george takei spent four years in the internment camps and he released a blistering response to the roanoke mayor's statement. "there never was any proven incident of espionage or sabotage from the suspected enemies then, just as there has been no act o...

Family. his family, like thousands of other japanese americans, were interned in camps in world war ii. >> in the beginning of the 20th century, there was a lot of anti-asian prejudice. >> there were too many of them, taking our jobs. the usual. >> some of them were buying our land. >> things got really bad for the japanese, of course, after pearl harbor. >> yes. >> it was an internment program. >> so they had a list of all the names. >> kids, too. >> yes. children, too. they all had to go walking to the train station in downtown san jose. my mother did say that at the beginning, before they w...

Kind of a camaraderie. >> oh, thank you. curt fakuda grew up in the family. his family, like thousands of others, were interred in camps during world war ii. >> there was a lot of anti-asian prejudice. some of them are buying our land. >> things got really bad for the japanese after pearl harbor. it was an internment program. >> they have a list of all the names. >> kids, too? >> yes, they all had to go walking to the train station in downtown san jose. my mother did say that at the beginning, before they were put in the camps, they were brought to assembly centers while the camps were being b...