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US Immigration Bill May Bring a National Biometric ID Card
schwit1 sends this quote from the Wall Street Journal:
"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 US workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker. ... A person familiar with the legislative planning said the biometric data would likely be either fingerprints or a scan of the veins in the top of the hand. It would be required of all workers, including teenagers, but would be phased in, with current workers needing to obtain the card only when they next changed jobs, the person said. The card requirement also would be phased in among employers, beginning with industries that typically rely on illegal-immigrant labor."
The biggest objections to the biometric cards may come from privacy advocates, who fear they would become de facto national ID cards that enable the government to track citizens.
Tracking citizens of what, their work? We already do that. Before you can get a job (legally anyhow) you need to provide your social security number. The problem with this - your card has no biometrics (pictures, fingerprints, etc) - so you can steal someones social security card and then use that to gain work...which is not what we want. It's actually a huge issue and there have been many cases where illegal immigrants use stolen social security numbers from dead people (or living people who had their id's compromised). This will help curtail that identity theft.
This is nothing more then putting a "picture" on your social security card.
I do not support "The Man". I also do not support your irrational stupidity
And how were you planning to vote, with no ID card?
Democrats have consistently opposed efforts to require voters to prove their identity before going to the polls. Where have you been?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
You can only pass laws against everyone requiring them to prove they are a citizen.
It's a consequence of the entitlement society we currently have. If you're going to make public resources available for consumption, then you need some sort of "laws against everyone" in order to keep a zillion non-citizen moochers from consuming the resources. In the past, when the US didn't have such a society, there were no illegal immigrants. I think it's no coincidence that the US transitioned from an open immigration society to a closed society in the 20s and 30s, when entitlements were first doled out.