In border crisis, we must choose to be the America of thee we sing

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"Back in 1939, America turned its back on a shipload of European Jews fleeing Nazi persecution. While the trans-Atlantic liner St. Louis waited within sight of the city lights of Miami, U.S. politicians, including President Franklin Roosevelt, ignored the pleas of 907 refugees, sending them back to Europe, where 254 of those Jews were murdered in the Holocaust."

Was that America "the land of the free and the home of the brave"?

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