[Governor Dinwiddie]

I'm sure that the Roosevelt administration's immigration policy was hugely influenced by American unemployment numbers do to the Great Depression.

[smokingfrog]

That was definitely part of it. Hoover cut back on immigration quotas and FDR continued with similar policies after the stock market crashed. On top of that, the dust bowl years started in the early 30’s.

[DesertRhino]

Exactly. In 1933 it was not at all apparent that the Holocaust was coming. People in Germany didn’t predict it yet either. Krystallnacht was in 1938. At that time people were extolling the economic genius of Hitler and Mussolini. Our economy was a disaster, a third of the nation was out of work. And he’s going to flood in tens of thousands of Germans now?

This is as empty as the “bomb the rails to the death camps” complaint.