The U.S. Homeland Security Dept. has initiated a policy that makes it harder for folks to visit the U.S. on short notice. Mainly business travelers from Europe and China will be affected, which is odd, as this seems counter-productive for the supposedly business-friendly conservatives. Combined with the current attitude towards immigration this adds up to doors creaking closed. To his credit, Bush’s amnesty program for immigrants at least recognized that they prop up the U.S. economy and that retaliatory policies from foreign markets would be disastrous.
Other countries that closed their doors in the past were (or are) Albania, Burma, North Korea, Turkmenistan and Red China (before their conversion to glorious authoritarian capitalism). It really worked well for all those guys.
