The Hill  :

The Democratic mayor of Roanoke, Va., cited World War II-era Japanese internment camps in his calls to “suspend and delay” the relocation of Syrian refugees to his city.

“I’m reminded that President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt compelled to sequester Japanese foreign nationals after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and it appears that the threat of harm to America from ISIS now is just as real and serious as that from our enemies then,” Mayor David Bowers said in a statement on Wednesday, according to the Roanoke Times.