>>>>What kind of actions US government could take to "shut down or slow the camps" when USA was already in the war?
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>>>Among other things, bombing the tracks so the transports couldn't get there.
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>>>>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.
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>>>I respect a lot of what FDR did, but in this area, I think he really missed the boat.
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>>>>US immigrant policies had political reasons, and I think that you know about them; therefore bringing racist accusation is excessive and misleading, imo.
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>>>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.
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>>>Tamar
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>>I am quite familiar with Immigration Act of 1924, that's why I said in my previous message that limit on immigration was introduced by political reasons. You use easy and cheap way explaining specific political action as anti-Semitism. It is just not politically correct to touch this subject how it really was in 20s.
>>By the way, the idea of 'bombing the tracks' using strategic aviation as it was in 1940s, is very ingenious.
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>You bet.
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>It would have resulted in more dead airmen, more lost aircraft, and possibly a longer war due to the diversion of resources.
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>The Germans would have had an annoyance which they would circumvent within hours, less attacks on strategic sites, and more scrap metal to work with from downed bombers.
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>But politicians could feel good.

1940s heavy bombers, other planes could not reach the sites, could not bomb rail tracks. They were not fitted for this task; too small target.
This lame argument about bombing the tracks is propagated by 'blame America first' crowd. Substance means nothing for them. They can blame USA for anti-semitism and zionism in the same sentence.