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Posted on 03/09/2010 2:53:08 AM PST by raybbr
Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.
Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker.
The ID card plan is one of several steps advocates of an immigration overhaul are taking to address concerns that have defeated similar bills in the past.
The uphill effort to pass a bill is being led by Sens. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), who plan to meet with President Barack Obama as soon as this week to update him on their work. An administration official said the White House had no position on the biometric card.
"It's the nub of solving the immigration dilemma politically speaking," Mr. Schumer said in an interview. The card, he said, would directly answer concerns that after legislation is signed, another wave of illegal immigrants would arrive. "If you say they can't get a job when they come here, you'll stop it."
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Slime-bag Schumer was instrumental in the 1986 Amnesty. He also assured Americans then - concerned about "another wave of" illegals - that with "employee sanctions" in that bill "you'll stop it."
After Schumer 1986 Amnesty legalized 2.5 million, we now have 12-20 million more illegals and the slime-bag is again selling his @#$% with assurances he knows are false.
“Enforce the laws already on the books!”
AMEN!!
Too bad the illegals can’t have tatoos put on their foreheads.
But, nooo, gotta make it harder for the legals.
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Big Government™ at work!
Grahamnesty ping!
McCain and his lap dog trampling on the Constitution and on the liberties and freedoms of individual U.S. citizens and lawful residents.
A foreign national ID card already exists. It’s called a PASSPORT.
Amnesty McCain’s friends - Jeff Flake, Mitt, Thompson (sad), Palin, Newt, Graham-nesty. Yeah they are conservatives alright.
“”It’s the nub of solving the immigration dilemma politically speaking,” Mr. Schumer said in an interview. The card, he said, would directly answer concerns that after legislation is signed, another wave of illegal immigrants would arrive. “If you say they can’t get a job when they come here, you’ll stop it.””
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I can’t even breathe!!!!
Anything led by Chuck Schumer has to be assumed, on its face, to be fatally flawed.
How will this be any more effective than the current laws requiring proof you’re in the country legally (generally, a birth certificate) to be employed?
” Great! Instead of securing the border and deporting the illegal invaders (too easy) they are going to put biometric trackers on ALL American citizens!”
Hanging is too good for these politicians.
I see a whole new cottage industry of fake ID’s.
And of course telling people they can’t work without a card is like telling a drunk on probation w/no license that he can’t drink and drive.
That works REALLY well.
They say “give us the rest of your liberties, and then we’ll do our job.”
To believe them would be insanity.
FU. I’m not doing it...
This reminds me of a conversation I had a few weeks ago with a woman who works as a nurse. She works on contracts, so she sees a lot of hospitals. She was a bit of a lefty about healthcare because she saw the difficult side of managed care. However, one comment she made stuck with me: She said, "illegals get the best care, because there's no gatekeeper."
Only legals will have to prove their citizenship to work or get benefits. And who are we kidding about whether or not these cards will be able to be faked?
Until, of course, your data ‘disappears’ from the national database because you spoke out against a policy the Administration fancies. Whereupon you can’t work, bank, vote, or a hundred other things that will eventually get tied to this monstrisity.
No thank you.
Work permits for all - haven’t we seen this before? Nazi Germany, the USSR. Next up, travel permits - UN Agenda 21 marches on...
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