I read a statement o11y a few days ago from a recently returned eyewitness at Pearl Harbor on December 7 last. saying some of the Japanese flyers shot down in that treacherous attack were former students at an American high school in the islands and were personally recognized by fellow Americans. In some instances. it is said they wore American high school fraternity rings on their fingers. How many such do we have in this country and its possessions? It is true we cannot take away American citizenship from the nativeborn entirely. but we do take It away in part from criminals convicted of felonies. I can conceive of cases where citizenship obtained by naturalization ought to be taken away from those who have forfeited such a privilege by nonfidelity to our Republic. I favor that part of the bill before us.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing that Japanese students who were once in American high schools are disloyal and a security threat.