Bob Fuchigami spent three years of his boyhood detained at a Japanese-American internment camp in Colorado. Now 86, the U.S. Navy veteran says he fears what might happen if president-elect Donald Trump listens to one of his advisers and creates a registry for immigrants primarily from Muslim countries.

“If something happens like 9/11, what are they going to do? Take all the Muslims and put them into camps like we were put into concentration camps?” said Fuchigami, who recalls the infamous ABC system used to track Japanese-Americans during the World War II era. “When you start to make lists, it’s sort of like the first step toward doing things like that.”

Fuchigami is one of several survivors of the U.S. policy of Japanese-American internment who have criticized what they see as worrisome rhetoric coming from the Trump transition team and some of his supporters.

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KITTREDGE, COLORADO – NOVEMBER 22: Bob Fuchigami looks over old photographs of life at Amache internment camp that he has carefully catalogued and compiled at his home on November 22, 2016 in Kittredge, Colorado. Fuchigami lived in the Amache Japanese Internment camp in Granada, Colorado from 1942 to 1945 when he was relocated there from California with his family during WWII. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

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