[lbo-talk] Homeland Sec Protects Us From Journalist

[Doug Henwood]

It's scary and depressing how hostile the U.S. government has gotten 
to foreigners. A British friend who's a freshly naturalized U.S. 
citizen is having severe problems with the authorities over his 
lawful wife, who'd be arrested if she ever set foot back in her 
native Uzbekistan. Another Brit friend is having trouble bringing 
over his Spanish girlfriend for an extended visit. And these are all 
educated people from countries who are supposedly our good allies in 
the war on terror. Obviously there are thousands more stories, and 
more horrible stories, but one of the good things about the U.S. used 
to be its relative hospitality to foreigners. Now that's gone, and 
you don't hear much complaint about it.

Doug