The characterization of the first option as North Korea is not honest.  They kidnap people and make it hard to get <i>out</i>---but no one is proposing that.  They&#x27;re worried about people getting <i>in</i>.  We generally consider DPRK a failure because we watch how people are voting with their feet. But by that same measure the US is wildly successful.  So I don&#x27;t think &quot;like North Korea&quot; is a fair comparison.<p>&quot;Dropit, you&#x27;re ignoring reality, people will come whatever official attempts are made&#x2F;there is not the political will to do what it would take to maintain an actually strong border.&quot;<p>Yes, I know.  And the incentives of that reality, for the elite, are to become rootless and disinterested (or worse: exploitative), while the proles just become resentful.  I don&#x27;t get the sense that anyone is making that connection.