Are “Dreamers” Next for “Voyage of the Damned”?

The public discourse on DACA and the 800,000 “Dreamers” assumes that nations such as Mexico will readily accept those young people, if the U.S. deports them.

But nothing says these nations have to grant entry to them.

When the U.S. deports people, they often put them in handcuffs and board them on a charter jet for the recipient nation. See the photo.

But what if Mexico denied entry to an ICE-deportation jet with Dreamers on board, either by intercepting the jet and turning it back, or blocking runways for a landing spot, or surrounding the landed jet with troops? 

Who knows … the point of the post is that nations do not have to allow entry to people coming from outside their borders (if you disagree, think about re-entering the U.S. without your American passport ).
The circumstances are different today, but in 1939 the M.S. St. Louis left Hamburg, Germany (the port where my father embarked for the U.S.) with 900 Jewish children aboard. See photo. They were “dreamers,” too. Their first stop was Cuba. All but 29 children were denied entry. Their second stop was the United States. They were all denied entry. Their third stop was Canada. They were all denied entry. Both countries opposed what they called “Jewish immigration.”

The M.S. St. Louis turned back. The UK took 288 children; the remaining 619 passengers were allowed to disembark at Antwerp. Those children were dispersed, away from their parents, to France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. In those nations, many of the children were rounded up and taken to their deaths in concentration camps.

The U.S. had a heart of stone in 1939. We will soon learn if the U.S. continues to have a heart of stone.