That was
the policy of the day. When Robert Wagner, the Senator from New York, asked that we allow
10,000 German children to come into the United States to escape the
Holocaust, that measure was defeated in committee in the U.S. Senate--
children coming to the United States. After World War II, when we saw 6 million Jews killed in the
Holocaust and so many others whose lives were compromised and lost, we
decided to change the U.S. approach when it came to refugees. Instead
of pushing back against them, we began to embrace them. And do you know
what has happened since?
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