The American government did not want the Jews
coming from Russia - let me repeat - they did not want
them coming to America.
In 1893, the US Secretary of State was very alarmed that if Russia
was making life very difficult for the Russian Jews that the Russian
Jews might decide to go to America and he did not want them coming to
America. Take a look at what he had to say:
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Mr. Gresham ( American Secretary of State)
to Mr. Webb ( American ambassador to Russia)
August 28, 1893
Department of State, Washington
In relation to the present condition of the Israelites in Russia and
to the reported enforcement of repressive edicts against them,
calculated to result in an increased emigration of destitute people of
that class to the United States.
The subject is receiving the President’s earnest consideration. It
has been for some time evident that the measures adopted by the
Imperial Government against the Jews, although professedly a domestic
policy directly affecting the subjects of the Czar, were calculated to
injuriously affect the American people by abruptly forcing upon our
shores a numerous class of immigrants destitute of resources and
unfitted in many important respects for absorption into our body
politic.
The continued enforcement of such harsh measures, necessarily forcing
upon us large numbers of degraded and undesirable persons, who must,
in great measure, be supported, can not be regarded as consistent with
the friendship which the Russian Government has long professed for the
United States.
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