"Likewise, FDR’s belief that Jews were inherently domineering and ultimately untrustworthy helped shape his opposition to admitting more than a handful of Jews fleeing the Nazis. His bigoted views help explain his otherwise inexplicable policy of suppressing refugee immigration far below the legal limits. Nearly 200,000 immigration quota slots were left unused, in part because Roosevelt’s vision of America was overwhelmingly white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant, with no room for any substantial number of Jews."
by Rafael Medoff The only immigrants who should be admitted to the United States are those who have “blood of the right sort.” Immigration should be severely restricted for “a good many years to co…
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“Japanese immigrants are not capable of assimilation into the American population,” Roosevelt claimed. “Anyone who has traveled in the Far East knows that the mingling of Asiatic blood with European or American blood produces, in nine cases out of ten, the most unfortunate results.”
I don't think so even remotely. He interned the Japanese just for sharing a race with the enemy. He hated jews. Are you thinking of LBJ? If anything, FDRs foray into racial policy was more eugenics than anything.
