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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I feel like a lot of things were easier back then. I’ll sometimes look up a famous business person and find that their great great grandfather immigrated to the USA and started a railroad. Or opened a papermill on a big piece of lakefront property. Nobody does that anymore.