Dobbs calls Frank's observation that "whole family" would have been wiped out in Holocaust if more restrictive "immigration policy" were in place today, "shocking."

You need an explanation Lou? That says a lot about your intelligence.

You find the comments shocking? That says the same about your intelligence.

And for those conservatives who share my ethnicity, and whose folks came here when, or after, mine did, few (if any) of us would be alive today if these anti-immigrant policies had been in effect during the Great Hunger.

I'm sure Frank will be happy to repeat his remarks to Dobbs LOUDER and SLOWER so Dobbs better understands what he meant. It's a good thing the polices that Dobbs wants enacted today were not around at the time of the Holocaust becuase Frank would not be able to repeat his remarks to Dobbs on account of him not being around to do so.

Frank makes a good point, but it's entirely in vain; he's forgotten that in Wingnut-Land, the only racists are black and the only Nazis are Jewish.

Further explanation??? what more do you need Lou? Graphs and charts? Do you need People Magazine to translate? Hi-lights?

Lou, would you find it shocking that millions of immigrants from Europe came to this country "illegally". And yes, like you, there were many people who hated them for it.

The sad truth is we DID have a very restrictive immigration policy for Jews in WWII.

We knew they were being persecuted (although not the full extent of it, but we knew it was happening), and discriminated against by Germany even before the war started, we knew they were being driven out of the country (or leaving because they saw the writing on the wall) as early as 1935 1936, but we didnt let them come here. They were counted under the same quota as everyone else from their countries, a quota that at the time was very restrictive for eastern Europeans (Austrians, Czechs and Poles) and even difficult for western Europeans.

We did not give them any special consideration until basically 1941 and 1942, after the war started.

The fact is we could have saved a lot more Jews with a less restrictive policy going into place the minute the Jews were persecuted, and that sadly would probably make congressman Franks point even more then what he actually said.

I'd make a comment on Dobbs here too, but quite frankly I cant use the language I want to here due to the censorship policy

The truth can be shocking sometimes.

Is Lou trying to make "shocking" a catch phrase? Everything out of his mouth is followed by "shocking!"