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What Barbara Ehrenreich fails to acknowledge is that an illegal alien, who is breaking the law every single day, has very little reason to abide by the other laws of our nation.

For instance, if I decide to tie one on and go for a drive, I am putting my reputation, my job, my house, and all my assets at risk. If I were to get busted, or worse yet, get into an accident, I could lose all those things. Having so much to lose serves as a powerful deterrent to drunk driving. In addition to the fact that it is stupid, of couse.

But for the illegal alien, these problems do not exist, or are greatly minimized. He is not risking his good name when he slides in behind the wheel drunk, because he is using a fake name, anyway. He does not risk his job because his employer does not even know who he is, and does not care. He does not risk his home, because his home is in another country. He does not risk his assets because he has no assets in this country to speak of. Since he has so little to lose, he does not have the same deterrents acting upon him. So all he has to be is stupid, and all too many illegal immigrants seem to fit the bill.

It is not just the law that makes people law abiding. It is the fabric of society that binds people together that makes them behave. It is learning, from a very young age, that the laws of the country are to be respected and followed. It is a feeling of shared responsibility with one’s fellow citizens, which is the norm in a country of equals.

But the illegal alien is not woven into the fabric of our society. Due to his choices, he puts himself outside our society and is overtly disobedient at a very basic level. He learns, from a very young age, that the laws of the US are to be ignored and broken with impunity. He has no feeling of shared responsibilities with the rest of us, because he is not one of us.

Such a person has no reason to comply with our laws.

Exactly. To our elites, only we should obey the law. I think its time to change the rules. Its time for us to disobey Washington's edicts on taxes, regulations, and orders and watch the country come to a screeching halt. They can't break all of us. If its anarchy they want, its anarchy they're going to get. I see no reason to respect their authority when they are determined to break the law on behalf of people whose very presence endangers the fabric of our civilization. So we are freed to disregard the law too.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus