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Japanese Internment Camps
During a 2003 radio call in show on WKZL Radio in Winston-Salem, NC, a caller suggested that Arab Americans should be placed in internment camps similar to those President Roosevelt set up for Japanese Americans during World War II. Coble rejected the caller's assertion but indicated that he did support the internment of Japanese Americans during the war. He told the caller, "Some probably were intent on doing harm to us, just as some of these Arab-Americans are probably intent on doing harm to us". The congressman also indicated that their interment was for their own protection. The Japanese American Citizens League, the Arab American Institute, the Council on American–Islamic Relations and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights each issued calls for Coble to apologize. Mr. Coble later released a statement saying the internment was '' the wrong decision and an action that should never be repeated", however he refused to give up the chairmanship of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security as demanded by Japanese American Citizens League.