Comment Re:America, for one, welcomes... (Score 1) 734
Having her bags opened and searched by a stranger openly wielding an automatic rifle was seen as quite disgustingly 'totalitarian' at the time.
It was not totalitarian for westerners, it was totalitarian for the locals. For most of them travel across Europe meant digging tunnels under the Wall or swimming across large rivers at night.
About going to the US, if you are willing to pay the price, I don't think the coyote is going to ask for fingerprints. So in a way, nothing changed.
