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“Jews have never forgiven FDR for closing America’s doors to European Jewry”
Liar. The law that ended legal immigration of Jews (and everyone else) from Easten Europe was signed by Calvin Coolidge in 1924. Franklin Roosevelt was pretty much out of politics at that point. Jews from Eastern Europe who would have made it to the US would have been illegal immigrants subject to immediate deportation. There was no provision for refugees or asylum in the law at that time. And had Roosevelt broken the law to give Jews asylum he would likely have been impeached and removed from office. The America First movement was that strong.