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by direwolf20 139 days ago
It's the laws of physics that decide whether you actually get in or not.
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They do, but also only physically.
It's the law of the land that determines how well are you doing once inside.
> It's the law of the land that determines how well are you doing once inside.

That continues to become less true, in the cruelest ways [1]:

> One man told KBI that Border Patrol agents tore his birth certificate up in front of him. He managed to save his Mexican identity card because he had hidden it in his shoe.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/border-patrols-a...