RE: Senate stalls on immigration bill

Isn't freedom somewhat about being able to walk outside the confines of your native country? This works both ways: for "Legals" - us -— and "Illegals" -— them. For as much time as some Americans talk about spreading freedom around the world, immigration is one subject where they frequently change their tunes.

As usual, the children in our government are debating about trees while the forest surrounds them.

This isn't about illegal immigrants at all. This is about the concept of nation states. The debate we should be having is whether the idea of sovereign states with tangible borders will continue to exist. Congress is too cowardly to debate this issue directly, and they are more interested in partisan pushing and shoving, so both sides of the issue are engaging in demagoguery over the people instead of the issue.

Bush and his neo-Jacobins would say (if they knew they could get away with it) that the concept of sovereign states has become passé. Actually, the neo-Jacobins would say it and it would come out of Bush's mouth, but I digress...

If the Democrats were honest, a fair number of them would likely agree. Gobal socialism is the left's aim and nothing would provoke the masses into squealing for a totalitarian savior than a few years of border-less anarchy.

Walls don't work. Ask the East Germans. If the outcome of the debate is that we will hold on to the nation state concept, then the only thing that will work is a will to enforce the law. We don't need another set of immigration laws. It is quite obvious that the Bush Administration has no intention of enforcing the ones that are on the books now.

For the record, Reid and Specter's "virtual" wall is well up on the list of dumbest things I've heard from Congress lately. And no, I'm not surprised.