... With the lingering memory of the more than 300,000 U.S. troops either killed or injured in World War I, isolationism was the dominant sentiment in most political circles. Americans were not going to be "dragged" into another war by the British. The Depression had bred increased xenophobia and anti-Semitism, and with upward of 30% unemployment in some industrial areas1, many Americans wanted to see immigration halted ... profound effects on why these decisions were made. A more realistic explanation of U.S. policy then would be the process of bureaucratic decision making itself, and not ...

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