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
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 of terrorism from any of the 1,854 syrian refugees the u.s. has already accepted. we were judged based on who we looked like, and that is about as un-american as it gets. joining me now, democratic representative mike honda of california, who was sent to an internment camp when he was nine months old and lived there from 1942 to 1945. and representative jerry nadler, a democrat of new york. congres
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 of terrorism from any of the 1,854 syrian refugees the u.s. has already accepted. we were judged based on who we looked like, and that is about as un-american as it gets. joining me now, democratic representative mike honda of california, who was sent to an internment camp when he was nine months old and lived there from 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
took place today, chris. all right. ayman molhedyn, thank you very much. still to come, the republican-controlled house passes a bill some democrats say is a product of anti-refugee hysteria. and after the mayor of roanoke, virginia cites japanese internment camps in relation to refugee policy, representative mike honda, himself placed in an internment camp as a nine-month-old boy, speaks out. he ll join me ahead. now i get if from my foot pain. my lower back pain. find a machine at drscholls.com theand to help you accelerate,. we ve created a new company.
and i think that it s led me to think about my my vocabulary and how i look at describing this kind of situation because now my vocabulary has change. my pronounce have changed, and even the way i describe melissa s birth, you know. i don t say she was born a boy. she was assigned a gender of a boy by the doctor and so it s to really set it back off the child and respect the child and that person s being. tell us what we know. 5% 6% of the people who are gay. who percentage are we talking about in terms of human experience? do we know a number? i don t think we know a number. we don t know? i don t think that there s a number, but i know that what congressman honda is doing by