There are many sound reasons for opposing the so-called immigration reform bill working its way through Congress. The most important is this: The measure would require all employers to register with the federal government and to collect detailed financial information about their employees on behalf of the Feds.

As the Raleigh Chronicle reports:

?[T]he bill would fill in one of the last gaps in the government's tracking of wages, by making it a potential criminal or civil offense not to inform the government that a worker is receiving compensation of some sort....? This provision, continued the paper, ?will definitely benefit the Internal Revenue Service and other government agencies....?

This provides yet another illustration of the patent phoniness of the so-called immigration debate. One side favors unlimited immigration of low-wage workers; the other side, which promoted the REAL ID act, wants to seal the border off entirely. But both sides favor police state measures that constrict what few liberties we still enjoy.

Let us stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.