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> A majority of US history included open borders where it was legal for anyone to get off a boat, provide some basic info, and go on to try and make their way h
by vitaflo 2y ago
> A majority of US history included open borders where it was legal for anyone to get off a boat, provide some basic info, and go on to try and make their way here.
Unless you were coming off a boat from Africa. Lets not forget that slavery defined a large section of American history.
- _heimdall 2y agoI didn't say that anyone getting off a boat was doing it willingly. There are a ton of problems in US history related to slavery, not least of which how our founding fathers handled slavery while attempted to build a nation based on freedom and individual rights. That's separate from the core topic here though. The slave trade and all the problems that go along with it do not change the fact that our borders were open for a majority of our history.