President Roosevelt—who wanted to increase the number of refugees taken in—could do nothing against Congress and the press. The United States had a theoretical quota of sixty thousand refugees a year, but chose not to use it. Instead, Washington employed every bureaucratic trick it could dream up to obstruct and delay applications. In June 1940, an internal State Department memo advised its consuls in Europe: “We can delay and effectively stop . . . immigrants into the United States . . . by simply advising our consuls to put every obstacle in the way . . . which would postpone the granting of
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The USA Democrat politicians even today disavow any anti semitism then and now but the fact is, anti semitism is alive and well. Discrimination based on the color of your skin or your religious beliefs or any other ethic or gender bias is unacceptable. Their prejudice caused untold millions of deaths then and now!
