Abogados de Inmigracion

I am reasonably certain that some Jews were able to cross the Mexican border during those hard days and they remained in the United States as illegal residents. If I could turn back the clock, I wish all Jews would have smuggled our family members (yes my grandmother told me in the 1950’s that all of her family was lost, with certain exceptions in Poland) into the country. I call upon all Jews and others to support the rights of hard working immigrants (call them illegal since the reality is by law they are illegal). Oppose state and local laws that cause hysteria in their communities. Think of the hysteria of Jews and others fleeing the terror of Nazis and their partners in various countries. As one of the strongest voices for education in the United States, I want to tell you that illegal immigrants are allowed to take the GED test in the United States. This is something that would have been impossible in Hitler’s Germany or any land controlled by the Nazis. Logically, if a person can take the GED without a social security number and a number is assigned to him by state officials (such as Rhode Island), he should be entitled to reside in an apartment or house in that community and in order to do that he has to seek legal work to survive. These immigrants have supported our way of life for many decades. There have been Irish in bars and restaurants and Mexicans hand washing plates in kitchens for many decades. We must fight against the racism that drives the anti-immigrant movements of our nation. We must bear the costs to help people who cut our lawns and watch our elderly parents and grandparents. We have needed over a million nurses in this country and our nation’s leaders could have put the illegal immigrant on the road to helping us all. Help my Dominican friends! Help our Dominican friends! Now you can read facts obtained from Dominican Haven! Now you can build an American Haven for people.

I want to tell my friends and readers who are not Hispanic that everywhere I have gone to speak and share my views with Hispanics I have been received with tremendous warmth and love for the work I have done. My work is known to presidents of Latin America who have promoted my ideas on the biggest television show in the Hispanic world and by allowing me to take pictures promoting the education of Dominicans and Salvadorans. Hispanics and Jews, when they meet together in special conferences, find they love the experience and unite for the general improvement of the community. Let us unite much more and build new bridges among our people. Cuenta conmigo! Count on me!

At the time of the persecution of Jews in Europe, about sixty-seven percent of Americans polled did not want to take Jews into the United States.

The United Kingdom, officials said, was not a country of immigration and was fully populated (in the late 1930’s).

Australia was much less populated and officials wanted to protect the country from racial problems by admitting Jews.

Even though President Franklin D. Roosevelt opened the door to Jews going to the Dominican Republic by his calling of the Evian Conference, his administration made it difficult for Jews to come to the United States (during transit) and the door was closed.

There was no change in America even after the promulgation of the discriminatory Nuremberg Laws in 1935. There was no change after the Annexation of Austria by Hitler and Germany in 1938. There was no change and 20,000 Jewish children were denied entry after the November Pogrom in 1938. There was no change when the British severely limited immigration of Jews in 1939 to Palestine. There was no change when 900 Jews on the St. Louis were not allowed to enter the United States.

American officials believed that the Jews could be a Fifth Column, supporting Nazi efforts and communism in the United States (or elsewhere). The truth was they were just Jews fighting for a second chance to be alive.

Isaiah Bowman, President of Johns Hopkins University placed quotas on Jews (did not permit any African-Americans) into the university and wanted to spread Jews thin around the world.

Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long did his share to impede help to refugees. He said amongst the refugees are many agents of the German Government. He also called Jews “lawless, scheming, defiant- and in many ways inassimilable.” Many people in society considered Jews “Bolshevik.” The State Department saw to it that “paper walls” were built to keep refugees out.

The Times Herald claimed that Sosúa was “crawling” with Nazi spies. That article slowed down help to refugees. Fear of Nazi agents became fear of refugees. In 1940, sixty settlers in Sosúa applied for U.S. visas.

In 1940, Congressman Sol Bloom expressed that friends of Polish refugees in Trieste promised financial support for them in the Dominican Republic. Jews obtained all kinds of bogus entry permits in their attempt to obtain transit visas and escape.

U.S. government officials were able to find ships for non-military uses, but not for transporting Jews.

There is one more fact that I learned about in reading the book. Look at the speed of progress that was made by Gertrude Fisher. Look at the hope that she had. Let us give hope to millions like her. Let us plant love and hope, instead of hate and destruction of lives. Yes Jews who knew about education from Europe planted classes and not just mangos and papayas in those years. The children of these Jews went to universities around the world after the Fall of the Nazis. Many children of Jews and Dominicans remain in the Dominican Republic today. Keep families together through immigration laws that provide justice to hard working people. Let us write a beautiful chapter of history together, helping oppressed people in our nation.

Gertrude Fisher was studying education in Ciudad Trujillo (Santo Domingo) so that she would be able to teach in Sosúa in one year.

I HOPE MY PEOPLE SEE PARALLELS IN OUR HISTORY AND THE HISTORY OF HISPANICS IN THIS COUNTRY.

Below is a song that is a work in progress. It is in Spanish, of course. I want all Jews to find out its meaning from Spanish speaking friends, neighbors, co-workers, family members, and strangers. Since this is a work in progress, edited with ease on the computer, the rhyme is not in place the way it should be. Hopefully all of the elements will be in place soon and ready for great music. Every Jew in every place in the world must know about this great effort in history and let it be known as well as Schindler’s efforts and the efforts of other well known acts of kindness to people. Think about producing that kindness in our everyday lives to people who have emigrated everywhere for a better life. Let this song stand up for future generations the way that Emma Lazarus’s words have affected hundreds of millions of immigrants and the children and grandchildren. I would like to thank all of my readers who read my articles around across the United States, the Dominican Republic, and other countries. My appreciation goes to Juan Luis Guerra, an Icon in the Dominican music world (Latino Music) who has inspired me through his poetic lyrics and his call for justice for his people. Ojala Que Llueva Café y Educación en El Campo! Cónsul General Luís Montes-Brito of El Salvador made all of my work possible in the Hispanic community when he allowed me to teach in the Consulate of El Salvador and we opened the door of the Consulate to Americans, Haitians, Dominicans, Argentines, Guatemalans, Panamanians, Ecuadorians, Colombians, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans who I had the chance to teach there.

SEGUNDA VIDA EN SOSUA

Madre mía cuanto te extraño
Llorando lágrimas de amor por ti
Llenando en un mar desconocido e inmenso
Con sentimientos tan intensos
Todavía una inquietud me pasa a mí
Y la razón cómo y porqué yo me partí
De su amor maternal por mí

Con un adiós absurdo salí de su casa
Pensando de un anschluss y un kristalnacht sinistro
Y una inquietud me lo pasa
Nos pasamos
Las leyes de Nuremberg escapamos
Un pueblo hablando nuestro idioma
Todos nos atacaron
Como un vicioso tiburón

Pero aquí, mamá
Entramos en un puerto y un día diferente
Protegido por se parece
Un nuevo Luperón
Por edicto doctoral
Bailamos en los mares con caballos
Olvidamos la marcha del temor
Vacas y dominicanos fabricando queso junto
Olvidamos el progreso del temor
Dieciocho niños se nacieron de los pares
Mamí un bebe está llorando contento, increíble
Imposible en Alemania, Polonia y Romania
Hecho posible (reproducido) por el milagro del sonido de un tambor

Gracias al mango glorioso y latkas de yuca quisqueyana
Gracias al lenguaje español
Gracias al despartar con un gallo y mi caballo
Sí, mamí mi caballo
Gracias al poderoso y vida dando sol

Porque no me escriba madre mía
Para que yo pueda informarle
De Charamico, Puerto Plata y el Batey
Tomando mi café al estilo vienesa
También un nuevo régimen
Y una diferente ley
Quisiera besarte y amarte
Por la vida que me dio
Tengo una segunda vida
Debajo de un arduo sol
Tengo una segunda vida en Sosúa
Debajo de un arduo sol

MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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