response to the Holocaust. The foremost concerns the highly selective application of established American immigration policy to Jewish refugees trying to get away from their increasingly violent persecution in Germany in the 1930s and from the horrors of the Holocaust during the warfare. Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) in 1924 had imposed extremely tight limits on immigration to the U.S. and the limited quota for immigrants from Germany was not as detached in the 1930s, despite the American growing awareness of the systematic discrimination, mass incarceration, and nation-sponsored violence against Jews in Nazi
response to the Holocaust. The foremost concerns the highly selective application of established American immigration policy to Jewish refugees trying to get away from their increasingly violent persecution in Germany in the 1930s and from the horrors of the Holocaust during the warfare. Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) in 1924 had imposed extremely tight limits on immigration to the U.S. and the limited quota for immigrants from Germany was not as detached in the 1930s, despite the American growing awareness of the systematic discrimination, mass incarceration, and nation-sponsored violence against Jews in Nazi