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“Immigration trumps other issues” published Brownsville Herald 1/23/2005 Though the Herald demoted me to The New York Times News Service, I am not in their employ. I am an independant and am solely responsible for the content.Were I to pick an ideological News Agent I would pick “The Freedom News Service”.
I was recently asked, how I select a topic to write about in my column. My problem isn’t finding something to write about but to select which subject. I must admit that my passions play a big part and often I will scrap a column written several days in advance of a deadline in preference for one that an item in a paper or on the news stirs my juices the day of deadline.
In this case Sunday’s paper nearly everything stirred me from the fact of the personal attack on Ms. Zamora by Jeffery Millar; just on the surface the numbers of political names and the financial sums mentioned, would lead me to suspect that there is much more to benefit them personally than meets the eye. The political undertones and obvious conspiracy issues contained in the Beetle Baily cartoon even stirred me.
How the administration deals with the issue of fixing immigration is so important that it trumps all others and has such far reaching impact on everything from our basic concept of the rule of law to Social Security. Immigration is indeed broke and needs fixing and has the potential to damage the nation as no other issue.
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