AHC/PC/WI: Have USA Shelter Would-Be Holocaust Victims And Other Refugees

And from the following, some Americans officials did try within the constraints they faced:

Setting the record straight on the S.S. St. Louis, 75 Years Later, Post and Courier, Robert Rosen, May 27, 2014.

http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20140527/PC1002/140529469

' . . . The point man on the St. Louis was Henry Morgenthau, Roosevelt's Jewish Secretary of the Treasury and a major contributor to the JDC. Morgenthau worked behind the scenes with the State Department, leaders of the JDC and others to see to it that none of the St. Louis passengers returned to Germany. The American Consul-General in Havana, Coert DuBois, and Ambassador J. Butler Wright, worked closely with the JDC. Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, was involved and Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy lobbied British authorities. The JDC put up substantial money to guarantee that the passengers would not become a burden in their new places of refuge. . . '
 
Jewish Mafia Influence

Along with the Italian Mafia, the Jewish Mafia gained a great deal of money and political influence with the profit from bootlegging, loan sharking, and so on.

A POD is the Jewish Mafia deciding that they don't like the State Department dragging their feet on visas. They and the politicians on their payrolls bring pressure to bear on the administration to honor the agreed on quotas.

Since the Jews had to show that they would not be a burden on society, the Jewish Mafia could provide funds to meet this requirement.

Stubear1012.
 
Along with the Italian Mafia, the Jewish Mafia gained a great deal of money and political influence with the profit from bootlegging, loan sharking, and so on.

A POD is the Jewish Mafia deciding that they don't like the State Department dragging their feet on visas. They and the politicians on their payrolls bring pressure to bear on the administration to honor the agreed on quotas.

Since the Jews had to show that they would not be a burden on society, the Jewish Mafia could provide funds to meet this requirement.

Stubear1012.

That's a hell of a lot of altruism you are expecting from gangsters. Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Murder Inc and the rest of the Jewish mobsters never showed this much concern for their fellow Jews IOTL. Can't see how that would change.

Also, increasing the influence of Jewish mobsters in politics would only inflame American xenophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment and antisemitism.
 
I agree that it would be a reach. I was thinking about the passage in "Mila 18" were the chief rabbi meets with the Jewish gangster to ask for money for the poor. The Jewish gangster decides to give him the money since the rabbi represents God. I am thinking of the American Jewish gangsters thinking the same thing. It does not hurt to hedge your bets.

On the political influence, I agree that if it is public there would be a backlash. I am assuming that it would be discrete along with the appropriate cash payoffs and reminders of the ballot stuffing that happen in many cities.

Stubear1012
 
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