That is unnecessarily divisive. Northern European countries trust each other more. They might have an ethnic and cultural history that enables trust while The US doesn't. No one can deny the influences and overlaps of public policy, culture, and economics on each other, but no individual aspect of society justifies inaction. That is more of a red herring than anything.

Ah yes, it couldn't possibly be that some people have a (justified or not) ideological opposition to something, or that they believe there are real concrete things that would prevent something working for a country of 9 million also working for a country of 326 million. No, it's definitely that they hate brown people.

I expect better from HN, honestly.

Can you explain why that would make a difference in the effectiveness of the policies?