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To: Thomas M. who wrote (1058)	2/19/2002 9:20:24 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

<< Why go to Israel? Why not America? >> You probably have not suffered the loss of your entire family. But, multiply the loss of an entire family by millions, and you get hundreds of thousands of emaciated Holocaust survivors that want their own country, a land where any and all Jews could go AND BE SAFE. Why go to America? Why not Israel?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (1058)	2/19/2002 10:43:00 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 6945

The US took in a lot of immigrants up till the 1920's - though there were racial restrictions. Then immgration was cut to a trickle. Immigration laws have only been liberalized again in the last few decades. gliah.uh.edu 1924 The Johnson-Reed Act limits annual European immigration to 2 percent of the number of nationality group in the United States in 1890. 1952 McCarran Walter Immigration Act, passed over President Harry Truman's veto, affirms the national-origins quota system of 1924 and limits total annual immigration to one-sixth of one percent of the population of the continental United States in 1920. 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act repeals the national origins quota system and gives priority to family reunification. 1980 Refugee Act, enacted in response to the boat people fleeing Vietnam, grants asylum to politically-oppressed refugees. 1990 The Immigration Act of 1990 increases the number of immigrants allowed into the United States each year to 700,000. Interesting site detailing FDR's anti-immgration policies: mackido.com BTW, did you ever figure out why Iraq can't make chlorine?