- 05 Sep 2015 22:30
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The Immigration Act of 1924 restricted immigration to 3% of foreign-born persons of each nationality that resided in the United States in 1910. In 1910 American Jews constituted 2% of the population but in 1890 they were less than 1%. The 1924 Immigration Law further made it difficult for refugees to obtain entry visas, despite the ongoing persecution of Jews in Germany. By the early 1930s, immigration decreased from 242,000 immigrants in 1931, to 36,000 in 1932, fewer than 3,000 of them being Jews. However, during the years leading up to and including World War II, over 110,000 Jews were accepted into the United States, ten times more than Imperial Japan accepted on humanitarian grounds at the time in Japanese-controlled Shanghai.
After the Anschluss (German annexation of Austria), Austrian Jewish refugees disembark from the Italian steamship "Conte Verde." Shanghai, China, December 14, 1938.
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As for 'restricting immigration', the U.S. had immigrations restrictions on the books since 1924 or so, Jews having made up close to 10% of the immigrants to the U.S. the last two decades or so before the restrictions, and in fact loosened them in favor of Jews after the war as well.
The Immigration Act of 1924 restricted immigration to 3% of foreign-born persons of each nationality that resided in the United States in 1910. In 1910 American Jews constituted 2% of the population but in 1890 they were less than 1%. The 1924 Immigration Law further made it difficult for refugees to obtain entry visas, despite the ongoing persecution of Jews in Germany. By the early 1930s, immigration decreased from 242,000 immigrants in 1931, to 36,000 in 1932, fewer than 3,000 of them being Jews. However, during the years leading up to and including World War II, over 110,000 Jews were accepted into the United States, ten times more than Imperial Japan accepted on humanitarian grounds at the time in Japanese-controlled Shanghai.
After the Anschluss (German annexation of Austria), Austrian Jewish refugees disembark from the Italian steamship "Conte Verde." Shanghai, China, December 14, 1938.
During 1938–1939, in an program known as the Kindertransport, the United Kingdom admitted 10,000 unaccompanied Jewish children on an emergency basis. 1939 also marked the first time the United States filled its combined German-Austrian quota (which now included annexed Czechoslovakia). However, this limit did not come close to meeting the demand; by the end of June 1939, 309,000 German, Austrian, and Czech Jews had applied for the 27,000 places available under the quota. By September 1939, approximately 282,000 Jews had left Germany and 117,000 from annexed Austria. Of these, some 95,000 emigrated to the United States, 60,000 to Palestine, 40,000 to Great Britain, and about 75,000 to Central and South America, with the largest numbers entering Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Bolivia. More than 18,000 Jews from the German Reich were also able to find refuge in Shanghai, in Japanese-occupied China.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php ... d=10005468
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