Welcome to America: land of the free, home of the brave, and, in Washington, D.C., the purgatory of passport control lines. At Northern Virginia’s Dulles Airport, thousands of weary travelers these days are greeted with a first impression of a country that’s less “amber waves of grain” and more “snaking queues of disdain.”

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