The Wagner–Rogers Bill was proposed United States

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 legislation which would have had the effect of admitting 20,000 Jewish children under the age of 14 to the United States from Nazi Germany

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The bill sponsored by Senator Robert F. Wagner

Robert F. Wagner

Robert Ferdinand Wagner I was an American politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New York from 1927 to 1949.-Origin and early life:...

 (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Edith Rogers

Edith Nourse Rogers

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 (R-Mass.) It was rejected by the United States Congress

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 in February 1939, after public opinion polls had indicated a negative attitude toward increased immigration.

American Jewish organizations did not challenge the decision for fear of stirring domestic antisemitism.