The Latest Excuse for a National ID Card
What ‘Comprehensive’ Immigration Reform Compromises?
Whatever your views about Immigration Reform, the “Comprehensive” part of recent proposals means imposition of a national identification scheme on American citizens. A little-known core provisions of the “Schumer-Graham” proposal mandates a biometric worker ID system: it requires a national ID card with two-biometric features, and computer tracking system for all U.S. “workers.” That means most American citizens would have to carry a national ID.
The U.S. labor force of 160 million men and women dwarfs the estimated 10 million “illegal immigrants.” Yet every employable citizen would have to be dually biometricizes-fingerprinted and digitally photographer, perhaps retina scanned. Every “worker” would have to get a “tamper-proof” ID card and have to carry it whenever working on a job. It would have to be produced on demand by employers or government inspectors.
And now… the rest of the story. …..
Harold
