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by anexprogrammer 3485 days ago
You should search FDR's views on Japanese and Jewish immigration and his writings in the 1920's and later. It should make it fairly clear, and reveal his views of Jewish immigration and hence why very few German refugees were accepted. Even during the war it's been revealed he had negative views of Jews and Asians.

The picture of FDR making an uncharacteristic mistake is part of the whitewash.