6/5/2023 0 Comments History of the world senateAt that point, the State Department would have had to issue the maximum number of visas allowable each year for more than 11 years to admit all the refugees on Germany’s waiting list. Even as the State Department maximized the number of visas issued, some 309,782 German-born remained on the waiting list for German-quota visas by mid-1939. Between Jand June 30, 1939, the US State Department granted the maximum number of immigration visas allowable (27,370) to German-born individuals, filling the German quota for the first time during the era of Nazi rule. This nationwide attack on Jews, known as Kristallnacht, saw the arrest of thirty thousand Jewish men and boys who were released from concentration camps only after agreeing to leave Germany as soon as possible.īy 1938, hundreds of thousands of European Jews looked to the United States for refuge. On November 9 and 10, 1938, the Nazi regime unleashed a wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms throughout Germany. This crisis for European Jews and others seeking to escape the Nazi regime’s persecution intensified considerably in 1938, after Germany annexed Austria ( Anschluss ) in March and the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia in September. Anti-immigrant sentiment, xenophobia, and antisemitism remained pervasive in the 1930s, influencing the political, economic, and social climate as Americans responded to the refugee crisis caused by the Nazi regime. A series of restrictive legislative measures culminated in 1924 with the Johnson Reed Act, which set quotas, or limits, on the number of immigrants from particular countries who could be admitted to the United States each year. US Immigration Laws and the Refugee Crisisĭuring the 1920s, the US Congress passed laws that severely limited the number of immigrants who could enter the country each year.
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