[ThinkDifferent]

Seems to me that a Universal Service program could supply the manpower needed to patrol and enforce our immigration laws, as well as doing all those other things that need doing, like filling the darned potholes in every highway in the USA.

If potholes need filling, why can't the proper authorities simply offer a competitive wage for those jobs? Why must they be empowered to compel people to perform those tasks at gunpoint?

[MineralMan]

"If potholes need filling, why can't the proper authorities simply offer a competitive wage for those jobs? Why must they be empowered to compel people to perform those tasks at gunpoint?"

Good question, but they don't, do they? And who's saying Universal Service would be an unpaid position, anyhow? Not me, certainly. We're not fixing the potholes now, are we?