1942 to 1945. and representative jerry nadler, a democrat of new york. congressman honda, let me begin with you. what was your response when you saw this statement that was put out by the mayor of roanoke? >> well, i was very, very saddened by what he had said. and the things that he said was very inaccurate. first of all, he called the japanese-americans japanese foreign nationals. and we were actually u.s.-born citizens. 120,000 of us, 2/3 of us were natural-born citizens. and the rest of us could not become naturalized citizens because federal law prohibited that. so it was either a comment that was out of ignorance and just needed more information or he's just not well informed. >> congressman nadler, there's been a lot of discussion about how the u.s. reacted to the possibility of accepting jewish refugees, particularly around