re: #243 wheat-dogg

Everyone in Sweden gets a national ID number within a few days of being born (or of being admitted as a legal resident). Without that ID, you can’t open a bank account, rent an apartment, buy a home, see a doctor, go to school, vote, or (naturally) pay your taxes.

Which makes it difficult for undocumented aliens to get established. Right now, America is running around in circles, unevenly applying a patchwork of often unjust and even inhumane methods to try to control immigration.

That is not a sign of a modern, industrialized state.