Jewish representatives in the United States discovered that the President had accepted money without fulfilling his promises and went to question him only to be told by the First Lady that it was Hurl who had stopped the rescue. Consequently, American Jews filed a complaint against the State Department for its discriminatory and indirect involvement in the massacre of Jews. Learning that American Jews dared to trouble him, Hurl's response was swift. He issued a decree to all American consulates worldwide, prohibiting the issuance of visas to Jews. Moreover, a previous consideration to accept over twenty thousand Jewish children from Europe into the United States turned abruptly into a cold impossibility. Concurrently, a significant number of harassment incidents against Jews erupted in the Southern United States.