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Standing on the United Nations General Assembly dais yesterday, President Donald Trump had a message for the global leaders and representatives in attendance: “Your countries are going to hell.”

What for? The “failed experiment of open borders,” according to the president. Never mind the fact that some countries represented in the room—such as, say, the Solomon Islands—don’t receive very many immigrants at all, and that leaders have profoundly diverging views about the long-term effects of mass immigration. The irony was lost on Trump; his address demonstrated what happens when an “America Fir

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