US No.1 in rude entry process
What country has the rudest and most unpleasant entry process? Simple answer: The US claims the dubious distinction by a two-to-one margin.
So say readers of “The Economist.”
“This is not a problem only for whining journalists and other foreign riff-raff. It is also a problem for America,” the magazine says, adding:
“An immigration official lives in fear of admitting the next Mohammed Atta, but there is no penalty for excluding the next Einstein, or for humiliating tourists who subsequently summer in France.”
Their conclusion: Osama bin Laden has arguably inflicted more harm on America indirectly than directly.
“To stop his acolytes from striking again, the government has made entering America far more difficult and degrading than it need be,” writes the site.
By David Wilkening
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