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I'm wondering when that's going to happen because it seems that the US has always treated people this way since nigh on the beginning of its time.

It's one of the few countries in existence with a century-long isolationist movement, and in decade after decade has had anti-immigration sentiment run high for one immigrant group after another.



Maybe our relatively high resource-to-population ratio and economic inertia allow us to maintain a large enough economy that people have no choice but to come, regardless of how badly they are treated.


Not really. The US-Canada border was far easier to cross pre-911. You didn't even need a passport to cross up until 2004.


At one point in the nineties I was driving from Canada to Maine and actually had to wake up the guard at the border crossing.




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