Noam Chomsky: "Itulah alasan mengapa sangat sedikit orang yang melarik...

"Itulah alasan mengapa sangat sedikit orang yang melarikan diri dari kebangkitan fasisme di Eropa, terutama di Jerman, dapat mencapai Amerika Serikat. Dan ada insiden terkenal seperti dengan MS Saint Louis, yang membawa banyak imigran, kebanyakan Yahudi, dari Eropa. Itu mencapai Kuba, dengan orang-orang yang berharap untuk diterima di Amerika Serikat dari sana. Tetapi pemerintahan Franklin D. Roosevelt tidak mengizinkan mereka masuk dan mereka harus kembali ke Eropa di mana banyak dari mereka meninggal di kamp konsentrasi."

--- Noam Chomsky

Versi Bahasa Inggris

That was the reason why very few people fleeing the rise of fascism in Europe, especially in Germany, could get to the United States. And there were famous incidents like with the MS Saint Louis, which brought a lot of immigrants, mostly Jewish, from Europe. It reached Cuba, with people expecting to be admitted to the United States from there. But the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt wouldn't allow them in and they had to go back to Europe where many of them died in concentration camps.