This article was originally published by William L. Anderson at The Mises Institute.  Our plane landed at JFK at 10:30 p.m. after a nine-hour flight from Istanbul. Our day had begun in Riga, Latvia, where my wife, me, and our adopted Latvian daughter had been visiting, the Latvia trip being her high school graduation present. Trans-Atlantic flights, especially when one travels in coach, are always an ordeal, but our ordeal really began after we had landed and were herded into the passport line. With a heavily-tattooed official barking commands at us, we dutifully lined up to try to enter our…

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