Are Trump Supporters Aware That President Reagan Apologized For Japanese-American Internment?

Carl Higbie, a former Iraq war veteran and surrogate for President-Elect Donald Trump, raised considerable ire when he told Megyn Kelly that Japanese-American internment camps were a "precedent" for a potential Muslim registry.

Are Higbie and other Trump supporters aware that President Reagan formally apologized for the policy of Japanese internment in 1988?

Assuming they are aware of this fact are they now telling us to disregard it?

It's one thing to give heavier scrutiny immigration and travel from Muslim majority countries. It is quite another to base such a policy on Japanese internment which was directed at American citizens.

Now one could argue that Higbie doesn't speak for the incoming Trump Administration and is not likely to be a member of it. But let's remember that Trump himself likened his Muslim immigration and travel proposal to the internment of Japanese-Americans in an interview with Good Morning America in December 2015 and also refused to denounce the policy in an earlier interview with Time Magazine. So let's just say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Obviously it remains to be seen how Trump will act where it concerns Muslims, but if his surrogates continue to make favorable comments concerning the Japanese-American internment policy then there is cause for alarm.