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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He's She's already under my skin. She stays there!
I agree.
I bet if that requirement was part of the proposal we would not have to worry about the rats ever making it a law. They would lose their graveyard vote as well as their illegal vote and likely never win another election.
I already have a Passport, Credit Cards, Insurance and a Drivers License.
I don’t need more I.D.’s
Yea, but they don’t have your DNA, retinia scans or finger prints. Or all your medical history, if you CCW, arrest record, traffic ticket or your credit score! That is what they want on this card.
So what the size of a certain body part too?
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We need to convince our anti-illegal friends that they are making a big mistake by giving the statists the knife that will stab us in the back.
Don’t think for a moment that the ID will be used the way the anti-illegals want it to be used.
Once we give the government the power to say who private employers can and cannot hire, and how we must identify ourselves absent any reasonable cause .... that government power will be used to require members of hate groups to be required to be rehabilitated in a re-education camp as part of government mental healthcare.
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