- Headline
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Alien Children
- Publication Date
- Sunday, April 30, 1939
- Historical Event
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Child Refugee Bill Fails in Senate
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- Article Type
- Newspaper
- Page Section and Number
- B3 (13th page of issue)
- Author/Byline
- Bill Williamson
- Article Text
- Phoenix
Editor,
Arizona Republic,
Sir: This is one time that I cannot agree with one of your editorials, as appeared in the Republic this date (April 27) relative to admitting 20,000 German refugee children into this country.
You say this bill is a humanitarian act. No doubt that is true. But, why should the United States, when millions of workers are unemployed and hundreds of thousands of American children are hungry, bring in 20,000 foreigners and feed them?
The people who are sponsoring this bill should furnish the money to take care of these refugees—not the United States taxpayers.
I have read many editorials in your paper lamenting the great burden being placed on the taxpayers through relief programs of American citizens, but you failed to state in this editorial that bringing these children to America would impose any kind of a burden. But you did state that other nations are taking numbers of these refugee children, and it seems only fair that the United States should take its quota. What would be the quota of the United States who has authority to say?
After we have amply provided employment for our unemployed and there are no hungry American children in this country and there is a labor shortage, then, and not until then, should we admit more aliens, children or grown-ups.
If the United States should join other nations in forming a colony in some other country and send these refugees there, I don't believe that the many millions of 100 per cent Americans would object. But, why should we take bread out or our own children s mouths to take care of 20,000 foreign children? We have too many aliens in this country today.
BILL. WILLIAMSON.
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Bibliography
Breitman, Richard, and Alan Kraut. American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Feingold, Henry L. Bearing Witness: How America and Its Jews Responded to the Holocaust. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
Gurock, Jeffrey S., ed. America, American Jews, and the Holocaust. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Hamerow, Theodor. While We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust. New York: Norton, 2008.
Wyman, David S. Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.
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