Attempts were made to allow 20k Jewish Children to immigrate to the United States when Hitler and the Nazis were persecuting and killing those children, and the bill could not be passed in Congress. The St. Louis filled with Jews were turned away. Our racist and xenophobic immigration laws really began in the early 1920s with strict quotas on people.
It is no surprise that the racists today are getting headlines and children are tossed to the winds........those children are seeking safety largely because of the policies of Ronald Reagan to destabalize Central America and illegally support the contras and death squads which over turned democratically elected regimes and created the chaos which these children face. History repeats itself, and one thing is certain......the statue of liberty has had to hang her head many times in our history.
It is no surprise that the racists today are getting headlines and children are tossed to the winds........those children are seeking safety largely because of the policies of Ronald Reagan to destabalize Central America and illegally support the contras and death squads which over turned democratically elected regimes and created the chaos which these children face. History repeats itself, and one thing is certain......the statue of liberty has had to hang her head many times in our history.