>I'll never understand how turning a society into a surveillance state is the better alternative to thoroughly checking who you let into a country/region and de

>I'll never understand how turning a society into a surveillance state is the better alternative to thoroughly checking who you let into a country/region and deporting people who don't follow the law and make no effort to integrate. You can control and observe your population and make sure they don't start finding & participating in ideas that don't fit well with the established Overton Window, and then easily deploy things like cointelpro to rid of those ideas.