I mentioned this the other day when I told you about the upcoming demonstration for open borders scheduled for March 21st in Washington, DC (that’s the one where the refugee resettlement agencies plan to demonstrate when they should be busying themselves taking care of the tens of thousands of refugees they are bringing into the country.)
Now that the Obama Administration has the country thoroughly angry he is signalling that the Administration is willing to make people even angrier by promoting amnesty.
See the Wall Street Journal this morning on the latest gambit—a National identification card for us all. Where in the Constitution does it say that the federal government can track ordinary law-abiding citizens?
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 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.
The ID card plan is one of several steps advocates of an immigration overhaul are taking to address concerns that have defeated similar bills in the past.
The uphill effort to pass a bill is being led by Sens. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), who plan to meet with President Barack Obama as soon as this week to update him on their work. An administration official said the White House had no position on the biometric card.
“It’s the nub of solving the immigration dilemma politically speaking,” Mr. Schumer said in an interview. The card, he said, would directly answer concerns that after legislation is signed, another wave of illegal immigrants would arrive. “If you say they can’t get a job when they come here, you’ll stop it.”
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.
“It is fundamentally a massive invasion of people’s privacy,” said Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. “We’re not only talking about fingerprinting every American, treating ordinary Americans like criminals in order to work. We’re also talking about a card that would quickly spread from work to voting to travel to pretty much every aspect of American life that requires identification.”
Yikes! I’m on the same side as the ACLU!
Hey, Senator Graham, what’s wrong with sealing the borders so potential terrorists like the Somalis that came across the Mexican border in recent months (here and here) can no longer get in? Deport criminals. And, then make sure E-verify works. Seems to me that that is all that is needed to “reform” immigration.
