@jamiemccarthy
Ah, yes, sorry, I realize now I left a big leap in the OP, jumping off the word “deported” in the post I quoted. I'm thinking of situations like the St. Louis, where Jews fleeing the Holocaust sought refuge in safer countries but were turned back:
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/voyage-of-the-st-louis
•That• is the thing that is analogous to the US now.