re: #246 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Which makes it difficult for undocumented aliens to get established. Right now, America is running around in circles, unevenly applying a patchwork of often unjust and even inhumane methods to try to control immigration.
That is not a sign of a modern, industrialized state.
The USA is still midway between modernity and antiquity in many respects.