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The United States' self-image, and to a certain extent their image abroad, is all about equality, opportunity, civil rights and so on.
But it's increasingly looking as if the period between Jim Crow and McCarthyism on the one hand, and Homeland Security on the other, was a brief island of civil rights in a sea of inequality.
Yes, but those rights only extend to people with Green Cards/US citizenship.
If you have no Green Card and you are in the US (or in its way, in another country - friendly to the US or not), you should have realised by now that since September 11 - you have no rights whatsoever.
Its the same reason why the UK government routinely locks up (and locked up) all refugees and asylum seekers in prisons that look very much like Auswich (minus the ovens) - and this occurred long before September 11.
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