The last time America refused to accept refugees resulted in the genocide of 6.5 million Jews.

See the Evian Conference and tragic tales like the MS St. Louis for more information.

And they were refused for all the same reasons too - different religious superstition... trying to take over the world... establish cultural autonomy (Jewish sharia law)... murdering christian children as a blood libel for passover....

Indeed....history repeats itself over and over again.

We didn't let them in because we thought they would burden what little welfare remained after the Great Depression, that they would steal American jobs, and were just plain undesirables in society (antisemitism was soaring at that time). Even a congressional bill to allow 20,000 Jewish children to enter was rejected. See Wagner–Rogers bill.

And what made it worse, was that antisemitism in America had already advanced towards large organized anti-Jewish movements.

Henry Ford, the prominent auto manufacturer was a known antisemite. His paper the Dearborn Independent was filled with bigotry towards the Jews and gained a relatively large following and even influenced Hitler who became a regular subscriber. Charles Coughlin, America's first mega evangelist swooned nearly one third of the country with his weekly broadcasts against the rising problem of "Jewish Bolshevism". Despite Roosevelt's efforts to silence him, he continued to gain a massive following that reached in excess of 40 million American listeners. The German American Federation was another movement that supported Hitler's cause. Its leader Fritz Kuhn is credited with turning Roosevelt's slogan the "New Deal" into the "Jew Deal". Mob lynchings of the Jews existed throughout all of 19th and early 20th century America and prompted the public re-emergence of the Klu Klux Klan with the heavily popularized Leo Frank trial. Charles Lindbergh, prominent spokesman for the America First Committee was responsible for blocking Roosevelt's entry into the war. He was considered to be a Nazi sympathizer and influenced many people to discard Roosevelt's propaganda against the New Germany. Future president Gerald Ford supported Lindbergh along with future Supreme Court Justice Potter Steward. Other prominent supporters of Lindbergh's policies were Sears Roebuck and Co., Vicks Corporation, Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Sinclair Lewis, E.E. Cummings, Mr. Walt Disney, actress Lillian Gish and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Prior to the attack at Pearl Harbor, the American people at large overwhelmingly embraced anti-participation in any war against Germany, Italy and Russia. This large anti-war view often caused race riots against the Jews like the Detroit riot of 1943.