Showing posts with label FDR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FDR. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

FDR Rejected Anne Frank Twice as a Refugee, Advocate Urges Trump Not To Close U.S. Borders Again


As President Trump prepares to issue a new executive order barring all refugees and visitors from seven majority-Muslim nations, we speak to Steven Goldstein, the executive director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect. He reflects back on how FDR twice denied permission for the Frank family to come to the United States as refugees to escape Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.