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By ThirdTerm
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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.

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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
By Oberon
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ThirdTerm wrote: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.

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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


Nothing to dispute there, since it doesn't address what I said; some 12 million immigrants came in by 1910, and eastern European Jews made up around 2.8 million or so.

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpim1.htm

After the depression of the 1890s, immigration jumped from a low of 3.5 million in that decade to a high of 9 million in the first decade of the new century. Immigrants from Northern and Western Europe continued coming as they had for three centuries, but in decreasing numbers. After the 1880s, immigrants increasingly came from Eastern and Southern European countries, as well as Canada and Latin America. By 1910, Eastern and Southern Europeans made up 70 percent of the immigrants entering the country. After 1914, immigration dropped off because of the war, and later because of immigration restrictions imposed in the 1920s.


http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tse ... ishexp.htm

Immigration provided the principal fuel behind this extraordinary American Jewish population boom. In 1900, more than 40 percent of America's Jews were newcomers, with ten years or less in the country, and the largest immigration wave still lay ahead. Between 1900 and 1924, another 1.75 million Jews would immigrate to America's shores, the bulk from Eastern Europe. Where before 1900, American Jews never amounted even to 1 percent of America's total population, by 1930 Jews formed about 3½ percent. There were more Jews in America by then than there were Episcopalians or Presbyterians.


Wikipedia has some somewhat different numbers; the above doesn't include pre-1900 numbers, so another 1 million or so isn't an unreasonable guess for 1880-1900, though probably too conservative.

But, apparently the West is somehow obligated to be a dumping ground for the rest of the world's social problems or something, and nobody else is responsible for their actions. See the ludicrous demands made by Islamic 'refugees' re swarming Europe instead of other Muslim countries, and the idiots in Europe who apparently think they're supposed to comply with the demands.
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