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To: Neocon who wrote (62950)	12/23/2002 5:44:54 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

It is generally thought that anti- semitism lay at the root of our immigration policy, but I suppose that is disputable. The depression and relatively high unemployment of the time was most likely the primary driver for anti-immigration policy.. Immigrants took jobs, and worked for lower wages.... But that being said, I'm sure the Jews were particularly unwelcome, given the anti-semitism of the era.. Hawk

To: Neocon who wrote (62950)	12/23/2002 7:51:30 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

anti- semitism lay at the root of our immigration policy It sure was in the '30s, Neocon. Everything I have read about it confirms that the State Department was viciously anti-semitic at that time. They had some real Bitch of a old Woman running the Visa department that even had FDR up a tree. If you were Jewish, "Forgeddaboutit!"

To: Neocon who wrote (62950)	12/24/2002 1:38:23 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Not just anti-Semetic. Anti-Chinese, anti-Slavic, anti-Mexican. Etc. Just finished spending the evening celebrating my younger son's 15th birthday so don't feel like doing the greasy grind through statistics, but the US immigration rate plummeted like a stone during the Great Depression. Sometimes I've toyed with the idea that our anti-immigration policies helped make the Great Depression well, you know, Great. I'd need to run some form of statistical analysis but there's a superficial match in numbers that is interesting. I can't say which is cause and which is effect, but there's a correlation.

To: Neocon who wrote (62950)	12/24/2002 10:10:22 AM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Neocon, I don't disagree that anti-semitism abounded in the 30's, but we basically hated all immigrants in that era. Economic downturns bring our the worst in us :-( What I disagree with is your saying our failure to take in refugees before the Germans began killing places any blame on us. You can feel bad about something without being guilty. The people planning the process, manning the camps, those involved in the process and turning over their neighbors - they are the guilty ones. John