>What kind of actions US government could take to "shut down or slow the camps" when USA was already in the war?

Among other things, bombing the tracks so the transports couldn't get there.

>By the way, I am curious, does your blaming include US president office? I would expect you to have kinder opinion about FDR, and you clearly castigate executive branch for lack of actions.

I respect a lot of what FDR did, but in this area, I think he really missed the boat.

>US immigrant policies had political reasons, and I think that you know about them; therefore bringing racist accusation is excessive and misleading, imo.

Yeah, the political reason was that the State Department was filled with anti-Semites, as was portions of the country. I'm using the term "racist" here not in a color sense, but in the sense it was used back then, when people commonly spoke of "the Jewish race" and believed that people from Northern Europe were "of different stock" that those from Southern and Eastern Europe. Read about the Immigration Act of 1924: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924.

Tamar