Statement from Roanoke mayor

A Vir­gin­ia may­or cited Amer­ica’s mass de­ten­tion of Ja­pan­ese Amer­ic­ans dur­ing World War II in a pub­lic an­nounce­ment voicing his sup­port to deny Syr­i­an refugees the op­por­tun­ity to re­settle in the United States.