Catch-22 part 2

This photo of Ramon makes him look rather amused, but after trying to get a Social Security card in St. Louis he was anything but. It seems that the local Social Security office couldn't verify his identity with INS, the immigration authority. To verify that Ramon was Ramon, they wanted a state ID or driver's liscence. The State of Missouri wanted proof of residency, like an employer, besides the other documents that he could produce. Since he obviously couldn't be working in the legal sector without a Social Security card....

This process looked hopelessly circular, until he tried the Social Security office in Lafayette, Indiana. Somehow Hoosiers have discovered the Internet! The folks at the Social Security Administration were somehow able to go online and verify the U.S. government's decree that Ramon Alvarez is OK.

We hope those folks in the show me state will be able to see for themselves once someone shows them what HOOSIERS FIGURED OUT FOR THEMSELVES, after Mr. Gore invented the internet.

The upshot is that Ramon will have a valid Social Security card, just like other people who grew up and were educated in these United States, in a few weeks.