03-29-2017, 02:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-29-2017, 02:25 PM by BenSkywalker.)
Quote:Epic fail. William D. Rubinstein's The Myth of Rescue debunks this myth:
Did he try preaching that to the voyagers on the St Louis? I mean, he could try and find the mass graves FDR's refusal to grant them asylum resulted in.
Quote:US immigration restrictions long predated FDR
They became both more severe and the quotas that were in place were rarely met under FDR's administration. But let's put aside the insane FDR defense spin and just look at numbers-
http://www.emmigration.info/us-immigrati...istics.htm
Just over 500K immigrants admitted in the 1930s...... Those measures passed by Republican presidents resulted in a low of 4 million for a decade prior to FDR. Also, if we are just doing Democrat versus Republican, H Bush upped the legal immigration quota by 40% with the 1990 act he signed. As I stated this isn't a left versus right issue, but I wanted to put the poster child for right versus left thinking up to compare on the issue of immigration.
Quote:The Jews of Nazi Germany by and large didn't want to emigrate until after Kristallnacht, and even when they did, the USA usually wasn't their first choice
The St Louis arrived after Kristallnacht, begged for asylum and were refused.
Quote:I'm not even going to dignify Ben's nonsense comment with a response.
You are talking US politics, the father of modern left wing politics was anti immigration, the father of modern conservatism amnestied millions of illegals. That is historical reality princess.
Edit- Forgot to mention Steel, you completely ignored the internment camps that FDR was tossing over 100,000 legal US citizens in because of their ancestry.