http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/08/id-card-workers-center-immigration-plan/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.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/08/id-card-workers-center-immigration-plan/
So instead of actually solving the problem (closing off the border) the federal government would like to invade every legal citizens privacy.
I am sure this will be as unhackable as those RFID chips in the newer passports.
Under what constitutional justification can the federal government give for requiring me to have papers when if I and the work I output never crosses state lines?
The Great Wall of China comes to mind, and I'm damn sure the U.S. is quite capable of a 21st Century version if/when we actually commit to solving the problem.How would this nation "close off the borders" - and how much of the budget should be applied to it?
The Great Wall of China comes to mind, and I'm damn sure the U.S. is quite capable of a 21st Century version if/when we actually commit to solving the problem.
The fact that our border is still wide open is actually pretty disgusting...
How would this nation "close off the borders" - and how much of the budget should be applied to it?
The Great Wall of China comes to mind, and I'm damn sure the U.S. is quite capable of a 21st Century version if/when we actually commit to solving the problem.
The fact that our border is still wide open is actually pretty disgusting...
The Great Wall of China comes to mind, and I'm damn sure the U.S. is quite capable of a 21st Century version if/when we actually commit to solving the problem.
The fact that our border is still wide open is actually pretty disgusting...
Not really. It's much harder to get to the US on a boat than across the land border. First, the obvious, you need a boat. Second, you'd be coming in from the sides of this wall and much easier to pick up by coast guard as you pop up on radar or are out there a sitting duck for a long time. If the US had a real secure land border it would all but cut off illegal immigration from the south; it would drop to single digit percent of former I'm sure.Will we be completely encircling the US with this great wall? Because if its just our southern border that we close off people can just use boats and head for the coasts.
It is... now, how much will it be worth to secure it?
\there's a reason why it's not "secure" already...
The Great Wall of China comes to mind, and I'm damn sure the U.S. is quite capable of a 21st Century version if/when we actually commit to solving the problem.
The fact that our border is still wide open is actually pretty disgusting...
How would this nation "close off the borders" - and how much of the budget should be applied to it?
Enacting one Soviet policy after another....
Some day we will all be North Koreans.
We could just get rid of the minimum wage, thereby removing the artificial price floor which has artificially inflated our labor costs, thereby creating a vacuum for cheaper labor at the actual market price. Of course, this only holds if you believe in cause and effect.
I'm looking forward to the 1 frequency fits all radios.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/08/id-card-workers-center-immigration-plan/
So instead of actually solving the problem (closing off the border) the federal government would like to invade every legal citizens privacy.
I am sure this will be as unhackable as those RFID chips in the newer passports.
Under what constitutional justification can the federal government give for requiring me to have papers when if I and the work I output never crosses state lines?
You don't have Rush dialed in? Come on, tell the truth.
The Great Wall of China comes to mind, and I'm damn sure the U.S. is quite capable of a 21st Century version if/when we actually commit to solving the problem.
The fact that our border is still wide open is actually pretty disgusting...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/08/id-card-workers-center-immigration-plan/
So instead of actually solving the problem (closing off the border) the federal government would like to invade every legal citizens privacy.
I am sure this will be as unhackable as those RFID chips in the newer passports.
Under what constitutional justification can the federal government give for requiring me to have papers when if I and the work I output never crosses state lines?
Basically, neither party is particularly interested in actually closing the border, each for their own set of reasons. They all play lip service to the concept because the American people want it, but neither party wants to do it. Corporate interests want the cheap labor, and democrats know the vast majority of the illegals entering will some day vote democrat (after amnesty/legalization), and they don't want to alienate (pun) a large and growing segment of the population.
Good, we need a national ID. This can also be used when one goes to vote to verify the person's identity. Eventually, maybe we can link an electronic currency system to the national IDs to eliminate hard currency. Transaction logs could only be started / viewed by law enforcement once a search warrant has been obtained to assist in criminal investigations.
I also would have no problem with a DNA sample taken at birth or during emergency room visits to be logged into CODIS. A copy of the profile could be stored in the national ID to better tie it to the person.