Wagner – Rogers Bill was proposed United States legislation which would have increased the quota of immigrants by bringing a total of 20,000 Jewish children ( there was no sectarian criteria ) under the age of 14 ( 10,000 in 1939 , and another 10,000 in 1940 ) to the United States from Nazi Germany . The bill was sponsored by Senator Robert F. Wagner ( D-N.Y. ) and Rep. Edith Rogers ( R-Mass . ) in the wake of the 1938 Kristallnacht attacks on Jews in Germany . The bill was introduced to Congress on February 9 , 1939
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