America historically has tended to take a careless attitude toward immigration, citizenship, and residency, and for the most part that approach has worked. Immigrants were among those who responded when a young nation needed pioneers and settlers to improve the land. With their implements, tools, and knowledge, they tended to be an independent, self-sufficient lot. But times change, and the frontier was officially closed in 1890. The economics of today are nearly a century removed from those of the prairie days.
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