For hundreds of years, a contingent of Haida lived simply and industriously on Anthony Island, until the Europeans dropped by.

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But from 2005 onwards, a hysterical Republican reaction to the prospect of immigration reform (which aimed, among other things, to regularise the position of the 12m or so illegal immigrants living, for the most part peacefully and industriously, within America's borders) undid all that.

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