manufacturing consent the old-fashioned way ...

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Having thought about it ...

The reason for "open borders" and the "flood of illegal immigrants" is simple.

As I have said before, the U.S. has had so-called "illegals" coming across the southern border for decades, but the "problem" was never a "crisis" until recently.

Media has been led, sometimes unwittingly, and most often with help, into developing the old "problem" into our current "crisis" and in some parts of the U.S. today, people would be little more aware than they ever were that a "problem" even exists except for hearing and reading about it constantly in the press and on radio and television.

Today, one of the most "urgent" issues in America is "redesigning" our forms of identification - primarily driver's licenses - for which "proof" of citizenship now hinges upon having a Social Security Number.

In other words, you and I cannot get the "new" driver's license in any state without having, and providing, proof of our own Social Security Number.

Now some states have tied SSN to issuance of DL's for a number of years, even in the face of citizen protests - primarily those of us who recall the "original promise" that a Social Security Number would not be used for "identification"

The "finest generation" which objected most strongly to using SSN for ID is rapidly disappearing, and the few who remain are too feeble care any longer about matters of "identification."

Their children are of an age and condition for which they mostly seem content to argue with each other about who is to blame for the "failure" - from government itself all the way to the "undocumented border crossers" themselves - so that the real agenda being served does not even occur to them.

A new generation has been fully "indoctrinated" to provide SSN for just about any perceived "need" and even offers the information when SSN is not needed for anything at all, as if they never knew SSN was not to be used as and "identifying number."

So the "final push" in solidifying SSN as an *American Identification Number* is now under way, meeting little resistance in face of the threat of "terrorism" and a need to *secure* the U.S. against "foreign invaders" such as those "undocumented" people who come into the U.S. any way they can.

In other words, the "crisis" was manufactured to disguise the purpose of making SSN the "legal ID" number for all Americans, and it seems to be working very well.
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