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PETER SONTAG It seems to me that this country went seriously awry when voters elected a Democrat administration that rejects the fact that we’re a sovereign nation. I’m an immigrant. Let me illustrate how immigration to the United States used to work: ¯ In the fall of 1964 I applied for an immigration visa at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, Austria. The absolutely necessary requirement of my application was that I had to have a sponsor and a letter with a job offer in the U.S., to prove that I would not be a burden to the U.S. taxpayers as part of my application.