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In a nutshell there has never been anything in US immigration laws intended
to keep Jews out. Never includes the period 1933 to 1945. Never means never.
But it is nearly impossible to find a holohugger who does not whine about
what never existed.
They might whine that immigration laws were not changed to help the Jews
enter. There were millions of refugees from the Nazis. Jews were not the
most numerous. The idea of refugee status did not exist at that time.
And during those years there was nothing known of any reason to treat Jews
differently. Even if something had been known the same arguments would have
been made to make exceptions for communists, gypseys, homosexuals and others
who would claim the same circumstances.
Ever since the US created immigration quotas it has been a contentious
political issue. It would have been politically impossible to even open the
issue for debate without reopening every other contentious immigration
issue. Even if there had been an awareness of a problem and a desire for
America to take a share of all the persecuted groups it would have been a
politcal impossibility to raise the issue.
How bad did jewish Germans have it after the Nuremberg Laws? Much better
than Blacks in America. Some day someone who whines about the Nuremberg Laws
should actually read them in comparison to the condition of American Blacks
in the 1930s. Blacks would have traded in a heartbeat.
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