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Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by shkkmo on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @01:01PM (#35072414)
While borders have a long history, checking passports at borders is indeed a "modern invention" and controlling emigration was explicitly part of the motivation for its adoption and why "being issued a passport" isn't considered a human right.
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Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by boh on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @01:21PM (#35072713)
It isn't. Free movement of people hasn't been a thing since the invention of civilization. You needed seals/papers to get in/out of city-states, duchies etc. They reference passport-like paperwork in the bible. I know history is boring, but it doesn't hurt to try it sometime.
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Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by notch898a on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @01:09PM (#35072532)
I've crossed into Mexico many times and not once have they asked for an identity document. You find out what a piece of cattle you are when you enter the US, though.
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Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by rootusrootus on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @02:08PM (#35073367)
Try that with Canada.
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