Yahoo News: Is a Biometric Identity Card the Key to Immigration Reform?

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Could a national identity card help resolve the heated immigration-reform divide?

Two Senators, New York Democrat Chuck Schumer and South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, certainly seem to think so. They recently presented an immigration-bill blueprint to President Barack Obama that includes a proposal to issue a biometric ID card - one that would contain physical data such as fingerprints or retinal scans - to all working Americans. The "enhanced Social Security card" is being touted as a way to curb illegal immigration by giving employers the power to quickly and accurately determine who is eligible to work. "If you say [illegal immigrants] can't get a job when they come here, you'll stop it," Schumer told the Wall Street Journal. Proponents also hope legal hiring will be easier for employers if there's a single go-to document instead of the 26 that new employees can currently use to show they're authorized to work.




http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100329/us_time/08599197492700

 

[dwdollar]

Could a national identity card help resolve the heated immigration-reform divide?

Two Senators, New York Democrat Chuck Schumer and South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, certainly seem to think so. They recently presented an immigration-bill blueprint to President Barack Obama that includes a proposal to issue a biometric ID card - one that would contain physical data such as fingerprints or retinal scans - to all working Americans. The "enhanced Social Security card" is being touted as a way to curb illegal immigration by giving employers the power to quickly and accurately determine who is eligible to work. "If you say [illegal immigrants] can't get a job when they come here, you'll stop it," Schumer told the Wall Street Journal. Proponents also hope legal hiring will be easier for employers if there's a single go-to document instead of the 26 that new employees can currently use to show they're authorized to work.




http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100329/us_time/08599197492700

No Yahoo it couldn't. Sorry.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Count on it.

Your work card, RFID enabled and biometric scanned.

Just like TWIC, step out of line, for any offense the "director" deems appropriate, and they shut your card off, remotely.

No judge, no jury, no charges, no trial, no work.

 

[paulitics]

The article is written by Time.

 

[LibForestPaul]

Sounds like a tripwire, at least for some I know.

 

[kcchiefs6465]

Government determining who can hire who and under what circumstances?

Damn liberals.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Could a national identity card help resolve the heated immigration-reform divide?

IOW: "Could more government help resolve a problem created by more government?"

 

[GunnyFreedom]

I really, really hate Lindsey Graham.

 

[Suzanimal]

Count on it.

Your work card, RFID enabled and biometric scanned.

Just like TWIC, step out of line, for any offense the "director" deems appropriate, and they shut your card off, remotely.

No judge, no jury, no charges, no trial, no work.

 

[VIDEODROME]

I thought the whole point of having Biometric based identification was that so you wouldn't need a card? Your fingerprints, retinal scan, or whatever would be in a big central database. Storing the information on a card would just make it more vulnerable to tampering and forgery.

Aside from how anyone feels about National IDs, I think this just shows these politicians as completely lacking in innovation and imagination or understanding of technology. Or more likely they have a buddy in the private sector to hire as the contractor to make all these cards and there is much less profit in a card-less system.

I feel like this is a massive boondoggle.

 

[willwash]

I really, really hate Lindsey Graham.

I never did understand our neighbors to the south (Carolina, that is). First they reelect Strom Thurmond for 100 years, and now this douche?

 

[GunnyFreedom]

I never did understand our neighbors to the south (Carolina, that is). First they reelect Strom Thurmond for 100 years, and now this douche?

No, I know what SC likes. They like a warmaker. SC is almost all retired and former military, older, afraid of Arab and Persian everything, and extremely gung-ho for war-and-more. That's why whuttle-L can so obscenely oppose SC values and still get reelected there. Graham would nuke the planet in a heartbeat if he had the chance. Most of his voters would not support that position, but it is that position (lending to his votes and rhetoric) that has caused SC to remain so faithful to him. Graham is a man with 'apocalypse in his eyes' and he believes he is destined to play a leader to his people at the end. What will he do when he finds out that the universe he is watching is a work of fiction? Spun by demons to draw him off into wickedness with his own dreams of greatness.

Most former military oppose a war unless it is lock-on righteous because they are not stupid and they do not want their friends to die. Maybe SC is where all the former military war addicts moved to? The ones who did 4 tours in Vietnam and lost it because they would not let him do a 5th... I can see it. Say SC is the heart of American war culture. Which is rough, since they shuttered all those bases... and ironic now that I think about it.

 

[willwash]

No, I know what SC likes. They like a warmaker. SC is almost all retired and former military, older, afraid of Arab and Persian everything, and extremely gung-ho for war-and-more. That's why whuttle-L can so obscenely oppose SC values and still get reelected there. Graham would nuke the planet in a heartbeat if he had the chance. Most of his voters would not support that position, but it is that position (lending to his votes and rhetoric) that has caused SC to remain so faithful to him. Graham is a man with 'apocalypse in his eyes' and he believes he is destined to play a leader to his people at the end. What will he do when he finds out that the universe he is watching is a work of fiction? Spun by demons to draw him off into wickedness with his own dreams of greatness.

Most former military oppose a war unless it is lock-on righteous because they are not stupid and they do not want their friends to die. Maybe SC is where all the former military war addicts moved to? The ones who did 4 tours in Vietnam and lost it because they would not let him do a 5th... I can see it. Say SC is the heart of American war culture. Which is rough, since they shuttered all those bases... and ironic now that I think about it.

I guess I'm speaking more deeply than just our current military conflicts. South Carolina seems to have a long tradition of irrational military bravado bordering (actually, crossing) into the excessive. If I recall correctly the whole Confederate "fire-eater" movement originated in SC too, and the state was a driving force into corralling the rest of the South into a military solution to the conflict of the mid 19th century. Ended in disaster for the whole country, of course...

 

[Working Poor]

No thanks I can do without rfid.