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Re:Homeless Population Jumps by Thousands Across the San Fra... by UnFleshedOne on Friday May 17, 2019 @07:42PM (#19944618)
States and cities can build a wall and introduce a visa system? I don't understand how any problem that would require effective border control to solve at a local level (because otherwise it turns into a global problem) can be considered a textbook state problem?

I'd say this is a textbook border-controlling-entity-level problem...

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Re:Homeless Population Jumps by Thousands Across the San Fra... by kelnos on Monday May 20, 2019 @04:16AM (#19958392)
Not workable; freedom of movement among the states has been recognized as a constitutional right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_Unit...
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Re:Homeless Population Jumps by Thousands Across the San Fra... by roguecoder on Friday May 17, 2019 @08:23PM (#19944798)
Yeah, you know, Brexit is going really great for Britain: we should definitely try dissolving the union and see if that helps.
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Re:Homeless Population Jumps by Thousands Across the San Fra... by UnFleshedOne on Friday May 17, 2019 @08:29PM (#19944827)
My preference (and argument) falls closer to global planetary government than to village-state actually...
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