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November 02, 2005

Memo From The Midwest, By Dave Gorak
Just How Lucky Can An Illegal Alien Get?
If you saw the old movie Pride of the Yankees, you know that New York Yankee baseball legend Lou Gehrig, just diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis that would kill him, made a famous speech in which he declared himself “the luckiest guy on the face of the earth."

When it comes to feeling like the luckiest guy on the face of the earth, however, Gehrig had nothing on Hammond, Indiana, resident Javier Palacios Perez.

Gehrig's illustrious career included setting a major league record by playing in 2,130 consecutive games (1925 to 1939), a career average of .340 and hitting four home runs in a game.

Perez did none of these things, of course. But he still has achieved celebrity status of a sort thanks to our Main Stream Media that regularly pumps out feel-good stories about millions like him: He is believed to be the first illegal alien in Northwest Indiana to qualify for a home loan using the IRS' Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN).

The IRS began issuing these cards in the late 1990s to people who don't have Social Security numbers so they can file tax returns. To date, nobody has explained why the ITIN, which the IRS nearly two years ago said in a letter to the governors of all 50 states was to be used for tax purposes only, has become another vehicle by which the bottom-feeding banking industry can get its share of the growing illegal-alien market.

"ITINs are for federal tax reporting only, and are not intended to serve any other purposes," says the IRS on its website.

The rule of law in this country, which is fast becomingâ€â€