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If you're asking "Why didn't the US take as many refugees in proportion to its size as, say, the UK?" then there are several possible factors, acting in combination. The historian Roberta Feuerlicht claimed in her book"The Fate Of The Jews" that the main reason was lack of support for Immigration into the US - or even opposition - by the US Jewish community, who were worried that imigration could create an anti-semitic backlash from which they would suffer. To the extent that anyone was willing to discuss this claim, it was controversial, but even more Feuerlicht, a respected historian and successful writer) complained that her book was deliberately ignored, with for example her publisher cancelling publicity for it. (See e.g. http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/052785/850527003.html)

Other answers often cited: the Depression (not really plausible, as other countries that had less influential Jewish communities and were at least as badly hit took more immigrants per head of population) and anti-semitism in the Roosevelt administration (unlikely, as Jews accounted for 15% of FDR's senior appointments to office, compared to 3% of US population.)

Finally, it must be remembered that at the time the US could have offered German Jews a refuge, Hitler's extermination policy was not yet in place.

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