Was migrating way easier back then (e.g., people can just board a ship with their bags to the US and settle there)? What makes migrating to most countries so difficult now?

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Was migrating way easier back then (e.g., people can just board a ship with their bags to the US and settle there)? What makes migrating to most countries so difficult now?

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Well it wasn’t so difficult back in the day to emigrate to the new world since the old world’s diseases decimated the population of the old world and there was so much more room to come over. Now when you come over you don’t kill anyone with your diseases so it’s hard to find space.