Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump recently released a statement for a complete shutdown on Muslims entering or planning to enter the United States of America following the attacks on Paris, France. The statement has stirred a lot of controversy of another US internment. However, the US Supreme Court doubts another internment will happen in the land of the free.
US Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, in a rare interview with ABC News, opened up about the issue. He doubts that a mass internment would happen again in the US even though the Supreme Court has never technically overturned its 1944 decision to isolate thousands of American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. He added that in recent years the country's values have changed and courts are more likely now to step in to enforce them.
Breyer called the issue on Trump's statement "highly political" and he refused to further comment on it. Regarding the 1944 decision though, he said that the case was wrongly decided.
In a post from Time, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump called for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." This ban, if it becomes a reality, will apply not only to tourists but also to Muslim-American citizens, immigrants and business partners.
"Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life," Trump said in the interview.
His controversial statement left people to remember mass internment on the Japanese-Americans back in the Second World War. Yet in another interview with Time, Trump does not know whether he would have supported or opposed the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
The issue has since been talked about by many people. However, as Breyer said, mass internment is very unlikely in the United States.
