On June 4, 1939, a German ocean liner filled with 908 Jewish refugees looking for asylum was turned away by the U.S. Some were finally accepted by European countries, but as a result of our lack of empathy, 254 of those passengers ended up dying in the Holocaust.
Now, Republicans like Chris Christie are calling for the U.S., the land of the free and the home of the brave, to stop accepting new Syrian refugees into our country in a shameful attempt to pander to angry right-wingers fearful of an ISIS attack.
Have we learned nothing?