But Roosevelt understood that the political costs of any public condemnation of Nazi persecution or any obvious effort to ease the entry of Jews into America were likely to be immense, because American political discourse had framed the Jewish problem as an immigration problem.

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Roosevelt was acutely aware that publicly denouncing Nazi persecution or making significant moves to facilitate Jewish immigration to the U.S. would likely have severe political repercussions. At the time, the prevailing narrative in American politics cast the issues surrounding Jews primarily as matters of immigration, which complicated any potential support for them.

This understanding led to a cautious approach from Roosevelt, as he weighed the moral obligation to respond to the...

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