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Old 01-29-2017, 02:51 PM  
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
My grandmother came to the United States shortly after the end of WW2 after the Nazis killed her entire family. Imagine if the US Government denied her access to the US because she "might be a Nazi".
No need to imagine :

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In a highly publicized event in May–June 1939, the United States refused to admit over 900 Jewish refugees who had sailed from Hamburg, Germany, on the St. Louis. The St. Louis appeared off the coast of Florida shortly after Cuban authorities cancelled the refugees' transit visas and denied entry to most of the passengers, who were still waiting to receive visas to enter the United States. Denied permission to land in the United States, the ship was forced to return to Europe.

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article...uleId=10005139
BTW , most of these refugees died in concentration camps .....

Don't forget , the USA at that time were anti-semite , including Prescott Bush
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