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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks, but net net the US borders were fairly open to Jewish refugees:

[quote]IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES IN THE ERA OF THE HOLOCAUST
 
US State Department policies made it very difficult for refugees to obtain entry visas. Despite the ongoing persecution of Jews in Germany, the State Department's attitude was influenced by the economic hardships of the Depression, which intensified grassroots antisemitism, isolationism, and xenophobia. The number of entry visas was further limited by the Department's inflexible application of a restrictive Immigration Law passed by the US Congress in 1924. Beginning in 1940, the United States further limited immigration by ordering American consuls abroad to delay visa approvals on national security grounds.

[b]Nevertheless in 1939 and 1940, slightly more than half of all immigrants to the United States were Jewish, most of them refugees from Europe. In 1941, 45% of all immigrants to the United States were Jewish. After the United States entered the war in December 1941, the trickle of immigration virtually dried up, just at the time that the Nazi regime began systematically to murder the Jews of Europe. Despite many obstacles, however, more than 200,000 Jews found refuge in the United States from 1933 to 1945, most of them before the end of 1941.[/quote][/b]

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005182[/quote]

Did you read that article?  Once they started slaughtering Jews, America shut down her borders.

Agree that Israel should do more (as should the US) -- but we've got no moral high ground here.[/quote]

But it's still distasteful when anyone does this - Israel or the US - in this day and age because really, it just shows that we stupid humans never, ever actually learn from history.  [/quote]

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