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RE: Single-issue people.

Cute.

But you miss the real point. There's nothing funny about the single issue of America vis-a-vis sovereignty and heritage as A Nation of Laws, IMO.

To wit, why won't Washington take advantage of the resource that's been available from 1937 to ID law breakers and ENFORCE their own immigration laws? It ain't funny, McGee.

It is absolutely true that Washington knows the ID of virtually every employer of people NOT authorized to work in the U.S.

Tens of thousands of these employers submit W-2 earnings data to the SSA and many unauthorized workers submit 1099 earnings data directly to the IRS (later passed to SSA). Some of the W-2 data are by Clinton-IRS-issued individual taxpayer ID numbers which DO NOT authorize the numberholders to work in the U.S.

The SSA knows the identity and employers of some 9 1/2 million unauthorized workers.

So why do we NOT enforce immigration laws?

As a long time news junky, Goldwater conservative, and an observer of the Goldwater v. Rockefeller internationalist Republican hubbub 40 years ago the answer is easy.

Goldwater conservatives respect our sovereignty and heritage as a Nation of Laws, mainline Republicans do not.

And that shames mainline Republicans into reacting with cutesy school-boy-clique sarcasm, ad hominem attacks, and tiresome lectures about not voting Republican.

(Rats of course are sworn enemies of all things American heritage except they do like their free speech protections.)

You're missing the point, or at least not reading the whole article. I am taking no position here on the subject, but rather the annoying spamming of off-topic comments about said subject on virtually every thread.

Today, it's illegal immigration and border control. A ways back, it was Terri Schiavo. Before that, Elian Gonzales.

Other people have humorously added other examples, but these generally have not had the same wide-spread "infection" of unrelated threads.

I am not arguing one side or the other on the issue. however, as a public service, I will point out that dragging every thread, regardless of subject matter, into the debate is a sure way to alienate (no pun intended) people who might have actually agreed with you, but don't want to be associated with someone who is making a nuisance of themself.