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19 Nov 2007 03:22 pm

America The Paranoid

Fareed echoes some of my readers' testimony about the police state atmosphere that tourists and foreign visitors have to confront when entering the US. Tourism has declined markedly in the US these past five years, despite booming elsewhere. Here's another anecdote from Lou Dobbs' America: immigration agents stopping an ambulance for a second time across the Canadian border, even while a patient was fighting for his life inside.

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