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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.
Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill are proposing a new national biometric ID card that would be required of all U.S. workers. WSJ's Laura Meckler explains the proposal and the objections from privacy advocates.
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.
A national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain is a great idea! There is nothing scary about it.
a few years back, a buddy of mine moved here from cameroon, and showed me his national ID card for cameroon - it had a thumbprint and i don't remember what all else. he couldn't believe the US didn't have one.
since you can't assume a person's nationality by the color of their skin, you can't ever really enforce immigration laws easily without some national id.
the opponents of it have some valid concerns, but nearly every state signed on to the new homeland security guidelines for state IDs for fear of losing federal money. so while they're all a little different and some have yet to play the game, we pretty much have 50 versions of a national id now
i don't have a problem with it, however, i can spot the hypocrisy in some of the more outlandish big brother arguments that dismiss a national ID out of hand. of course, that's the end of privacy through market forces rather than government.
since you can't assume a person's nationality by the color of their skin, you can't ever really enforce immigration laws easily without some national id.
the opponents of it have some valid concerns, but nearly every state signed on to the new homeland security guidelines for state IDs for fear of losing federal money. so while they're all a little different and some have yet to play the game, we pretty much have 50 versions of a national id now
i don't have a problem with it, however, i can spot the hypocrisy in some of the more outlandish big brother arguments that dismiss a national ID out of hand. of course, that's the end of privacy through market forces rather than government.
We lost privacy a long time ago. Most people would be surprised if they knew how much lack of privacy we have now.
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Go ahead pass that crap its just another sign of the anti christ and I will not get one nor will I get the mark on the hand or forehead that will eventually follow this.
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