26 No. 77 JUSTICE Jewish immigration. Nevertheless, he told the DAR: “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”37 Sadly, in the 1930s the DAR, Congress, and a majority of Americans had forgotten this, and federal law reflected this national amnesia. American law made saving most Jews impossible and bureaucratic intransigency, popular bigotry, and slogans like America First, further reduced the number of people who might have been saved from Germany’s gas chambers.n Paul Finkelman, Ph.D., is a visiting professor at University of Toledo Law School, the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy emeritus at Albany Law School, and the former president of Gratz College. He is the author/editor of more than 50 books and more than 200 scholarly articles, and the U.S. Supreme Court has cited him in seven cases. 37. “Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882–1945 American Democratic statesman, 32nd President 1933–45,” in Oxford Essential Quotations (4th ed., Susan Ratcliffe ed., Oxford University Press 2016), available at https://www.oxfordreference. com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191826719.001.0001/q-oro-ed4-00008907
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