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Ted Cruz: “FDR set up internment camps for Japanese Americans who were…”

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Ignorance & Ideology: AOC's Twisted Commie History of America

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By the way, in the United States, which president created detention camps and detained American citizens? I'm gonna go with it was a Democrat. As I just wanna be clear about this. It is a Democrat. It was FDR set up internment camps for Japanese Americans who were American citizens and interned thousands of them during World War II. That was a Democrat. By the way she talks about Jim Crow. She probably doesn't know this, but do you know who wrote the Jim Crow laws? That would be Democrats. (30:58–31:09)

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Asserts that President Franklin D. Roosevelt set up internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II.

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