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A national ID card in 2010?
Fox News ^ | 3/11/2010 | N/A

Posted on 03/26/2010 6:53:57 PM PDT by GailA

A new attempt at immigration reform may require a biometric ID card for all working Americans. Privacy advocates aren't pleased

National identification cards, long feared by privacy advocates, may soon become mandatory for American workers. In a bipartisan effort to curb the hiring of illegal immigrants, Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have proposed legislation that, if passed, will require all working Americans to carry biometric ID cards containing fingerprint records and other personal information. Sen. Schumer calls the measure "the nub of solving the immigration dilemma." But Chris Calabrese, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer, warns the cards would be a "massive invasion" of privacy. Are national ID cards the solution to our immigration woes — or an unacceptable intrusion into our lives? (Watch Ron Paul chime in on the national ID card debate)

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amnesty; barackobama; biometrics; capandtax; democrats; dna; donttreadonme; healthcare; id; immigration; liberalfascism; lping; military; obama; obamacare; palin; policestate; socializedhealthcare
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To: counterpunch

41 posted on 03/26/2010 7:32:55 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: GailA

NO.

Enough, you socialists.

Screw all of you nasty Democrats.


42 posted on 03/26/2010 7:33:58 PM PDT by Allegra (SEIU delenda est)
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To: GailA
We don't need no stinking badges ID Cards.


43 posted on 03/26/2010 7:37:55 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (I'll just say the 2nd amendment to the Constitution is there for a reason!)
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To: counterpunch

Makes one wonder about the coincidence of said terrorist attacks and just how complicit our government was in them...IMO

Means to an end?

Just sayin’...


44 posted on 03/26/2010 7:40:12 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (I'll just say the 2nd amendment to the Constitution is there for a reason!)
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To: GailA
Lindsay must be thinking with his left side of his brain again.


45 posted on 03/26/2010 7:41:38 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: Lucky9teen

I don’t buy into Truther conspiracy theories.
Bush, like all those in power, simply didn’t want to let a good crisis go to waste once it presented itself.


46 posted on 03/26/2010 7:42:25 PM PDT by counterpunch (The Emperor has no Cloture)
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To: American Constitutionalist

After all, it takes time to put together legislation to control the people


47 posted on 03/26/2010 7:42:54 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (I'll just say the 2nd amendment to the Constitution is there for a reason!)
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To: counterpunch

I’m not into the truther thing either, and I’m not saying Bush was behind anything, but looking at the coincidences of how information didn’t get noticed or departments weren’t talking to departments, etc, and it’s my opinion, the government was somewhat complicit. Especially considering the Progressive government in power.

Who’s to say the crisis wasn’t forthcoming... and known about, but wasn’t stopped before it happened?


48 posted on 03/26/2010 7:47:20 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (I'll just say the 2nd amendment to the Constitution is there for a reason!)
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To: GailA

Instead of stopping criminals at the border, we will have an open border and treat everyone like a criminal.


49 posted on 03/26/2010 7:47:28 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: Bratch

It’s not all Bush’s fault.
It’s the fault of the Big Government Progressives, of which Bush played his small part.
Are you saying that Bush didn’t push for the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (a Democrat sponsored bill) and then sign it with much fanfare when it reached his desk?
Are you trying to say that Bush was there, fighting on the side of American Liberty as hard as he fought for Iraqi Freedom?
Get real. While he was busy liberating people abroad, he was doing his part to tighten the government’s grip at home.


50 posted on 03/26/2010 7:47:32 PM PDT by counterpunch (The Emperor has no Cloture)
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To: GailA

By the way, the illegal aliens will still do underground jobs that do not require ID. When you pick them up at the Home Depot parking lot, you will not have to scan them.


51 posted on 03/26/2010 7:48:55 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: GailA

I may be an American, but I’m exempt. I don’t work no more. I’m a slacker.

And I know slugs smarter than Schumer and Graham.


52 posted on 03/26/2010 7:51:23 PM PDT by auboy (Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves. Samuel Johnson)
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To: counterpunch

I’m saying Bush is no longer our concern. Our concern should be focused on Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of the liberals in Congress.

IMO.


53 posted on 03/26/2010 7:53:57 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: himno hero

Ummm...no. Not gonna do it. What to do? Pay for everything now and hope it keeps?


54 posted on 03/26/2010 7:58:51 PM PDT by madison10 (If my people who are called by My Name will humble themselves and pray, then I will hear from heaven)
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To: Bratch

OK.
I certainly would have said “0bama keeps telling us that the terrorists attacked us because they hate our freedoms” if that was the case.
But it’s not. 0bama won’t even call them “terrorists.”
He calls them “my base.”

But the point is, 0bama is accellerating the assault on individual liberty in America.
He’s using the same rationale and the same same vehicle as Bush, even if he uses different rhetoric.

0bama’s “Change” was not a change in direction, just a change in velocity.


55 posted on 03/26/2010 8:02:04 PM PDT by counterpunch (The Emperor has no Cloture)
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To: NurseZac

You’re probably right. The light at the end of the tunnel that I see is oblablah is bleeding indie voters. Those are the voters that put him over the top in 2008. Indie voters are typically fiscal hawks and dislike social unrest. I’m betting he continues to lose them and we’ll have a chance in 2012 to replace him with someone sane.


56 posted on 03/26/2010 8:04:15 PM PDT by southernsunshine
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To: GailA; alarm rider; Alex1977; at bay; Babsig; BILL_C; bnelson44; Clintonfatigued; DesScorp; ...
This prick wants me to have a natl ID card? I don't think so.

Uber RINO Lindsey Ping
"Republican by day, Democrat by night."


Want on or off this ping list?
Just FReepmail me.


57 posted on 03/26/2010 8:08:34 PM PDT by upchuck (Subjects to citizens to subjects in less than 250 years.)
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To: tumblindice

I like beck’s name for him... Nancy Graham....


58 posted on 03/26/2010 8:12:59 PM PDT by Newton ('No arsenal is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.' -Ronald Reagan)
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To: sionnsar

59 posted on 03/26/2010 8:18:26 PM PDT by Newton ('No arsenal is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.' -Ronald Reagan)
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To: GailA

This is f**king insanity!

Instead of cracking down on illegals, they’re going to crack down on us!?


60 posted on 03/26/2010 8:31:35 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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