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Any nation is effectively an island if they close their borders.

• timeeater 6y ago
  So you are saying Trump should have closed the borders, a proposal he was heavily attacked for? Anyway, it is more difficult for non-island countries and bigger countries with more global ties.
  • zimpenfish 6y ago
    > Trump should have closed the borders, a proposal he was heavily attacked for? A temporary closure in the face of a pandemic is somewhat different than closing them based on his rather colourful view of immigrants.
    • timeeater 6y ago
      Those were different incidents, iirc he proposed shutting down travel when news about Covid came from China. The other "closing of the borders" is about immigration laws. I'm not from the US, but I never understood the anti-Trump position there. Surely, if you have immigration laws, you should try to uphold them. You can criticize the laws and try to change them, but criticizing attempts to uphold the laws makes no sense.