Holocaust as a cultural category, nevertheless was a soldier on behalf of the distressed. Were bringing mikes, so, and if youll let me know what my time frame is. This may be too narrow a question, but ill ask it anyway. So, i saw on cspan a while back interviews with bernard ferrenz, who was with the army and worked with Holocaust Survivors getting restitution. I wondered if you were familiar with his work and if that was connected at all with the congressman . No, i didnt see that. Its fascinating. Fascinating. I know the harrison report alone. Okay. Maybe you could tell me what fascinating. He has his own story, jewish background, and very unhappy being a private in the army when he was an attorney and all those and really singlehandedly, there was one other individual in the army who when they went into the camps tried to maintain all of the documentation so that they could pursue. And he followed up at nuremberg. Very, very interesting interviews. Documentation was key. I should h
Congress, 150 years ago in 1866, when congress is debating what becomes the 14th amendment, the 14th amendment begins by saying all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to their jurisdiction, ie, not the children of diplomats, are citizens of the United States. And there was a strong attempt by the delegation from california and oregon to amend that to say all persons except chinese would be citizens of the United States. And to the great credit of the United States congress, then in the hands of the antislavery Republican Party that had just led the nation to both saving the nation and ending slavery, the majority of congress simply said, no, all persons means all persons, were not going to get into the business of excluding particular groups of people. And so that in part explains the subsequent conflict over chinese immigration and chinese rights, because the 14th amendment meant their children would be citizens of the United States, even when the naturalizat
Was in the 80s. When a soviet Jewry Movement begins here in the United States. And the American Jewish Community Found itself in direct, direct defiance of the wishes of the Israeli Government that wanted the russians to go there. And the American Jewish community argued freedom of choice. On immigration. Of course once the russian jews arrive here in large numbers, they really dont want a lot to do with them and ill just end with an anecdote. I mentioned to my own synagogue board, maybe we should have an Outreach Program to russian jews in northeast philadelphia. And one member said out loud, why do we need to do that . I already have somebody to do my nails. Coming up tonight on American History tv, its the history of immigration. Starting at 8 00 p. M. , well show you a comparison of the roles of congress, states, and the president in developing immigration policy. Going all the way back to the colonial period. Then at 9 20 eastern, the origins of the 1882 chinese exclusion act and
[ inaudible ] im sorry. Can you just remind me . It was passed in 1902, made permanent in 1904 and it was repealed finally in 1943 during world war ii largely because china was our ally and yet when it was repealed it set a quota of 105 a year, so it was not really repealed. Its not until 1960 that immigration opens up for the chinese. 1882. Yes . So there were sympathetic views among the working class so the people who excluded wanted them excluded were not the working class or not voters, and was there anyone in china who had any voice, any power at all to respond. China at this point was an extremely weak country. It was on the verge of being dominated by japan. This is really when japans rise over asia is really just emerging. And china actually wants u. S. Friendship as a bulwark against the japanese and a lot of European Countries are going into china not to colonize it per se, but to force trade on them. So china is looking for u. S. Friendship to keep this open door, as its cal
The world to take this time and pray and ask god to continue to look over our chief and commander and those family members and keep those family members strong and love their loved ones. Host that is a good way to stop this time around. Thank you for all of the calls. ,omorrow on washington journal instead of our usual lineup of to devoteare going the entire three hours to opening our phone lines, opening up twitter for your tweets and spend the full Washington Journal Program tomorrow talking about your reaction to the events in florida. Lets take you back to the white house a little less than one hour ago with president obama. President obama today as americans, we grieve the brutal murder, the horrific massacre of dozens of his dozens of innocent people. We pray for their families who are grasping for answers with broken hearts. We stand with the people of orlando who havent doored a terrible attack on their city. Although it is still early in the investigation, we know enough to sa