Immigration

E.U.’s Migrant Plan Strikes Many as Another Barrier

A ship is stranded at sea. The faces of passengers stare out from the portholes. Three countries refuse to let them come ashore.
That was 1939, the ship was called the St. Louis, and the roughly 900 passengers, mostly German Jews fleeing the Nazis, were not allowed into Canada, Cuba or the United States. Historians say hundreds of them died in concentration camps on their return to Europe.