Posted on 06/11/2016 4:58:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
Close to half of the illegal immigrant population here in the U.S. came to the U.S. legally but overstayed their visas. A case in point: According to the Wall Street Journal's report, Mariya Chernykh, from Russia, came to the U.S. legally in 2009 on a three-month educational-exchange visa. She didn’t return to Russia after her visa expired. Instead, she remained in the U.S. illegally until she married a U.S. citizen, Enrique Marquez Jr.—the person who bought rifles and sold them to the San Bernardino shooters. Her marriage qualified her to become a legal immigrant, a green card holder. The day after the San Bernardino shooting, she took her green card interview. Even though Mariya Chernykh is not implicated in the San Bernardino shooting case, the fact that she overstayed in the U.S. for six years with no consequences and is eligible for becoming a green card holder says a lot about the Department of Homeland Security’s failure to enforce the law. In a country that gave birth to Google, Apple, and Facebook, we as a nation have embarrassingly few means to identity and track visa overstays.
There's no question that we need to do a better job of keeping track of nonimmigrant visa holders. It may be time we as nation consider issuing smart identification cards to each nonimmigrant visitor at his or her port of entry. Each smart ID card has embedded integrated circuits that may contain at least the following information:
· Personal information. This includes photo, passport information, and bio-metric information. According to the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002, we have been collecting basic bio-metric information such as fingerprints and taking photos of all non-resident aliens at ports of entry, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to add this information to a smart card.
· Visa information. This includes type of visa and visa issuance and expiration dates.
· Visa holder’s U.S. sponsor or contact’s information. This could be an employer, a school or institution, a U.S. citizen, or the organization that sponsored the visa holder’s visit. This is the kind of information that current law already requires the State Department to obtain prior to issuing a visa. In today’s process, the State Department sends this information electronically to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) , so agents at ports of entry have this information. All I am suggesting is adding another step by asking the USCIS to store this information on a smart card for each approved visa holder.
· Date of entry into the U.S. and expected departure date. The expected departure date should be based on the expiration date of an employment contract for a work visa, expected graduation date for a student visa, program end date for a scholar visa, and the date on the round trip airline ticket for all other visitors. Having this date on the smart card is important. When the expected departure date arrives and the visa holder hasn’t departed, both the USCIS and the visa holder’s U.S. contact should be notified immediately. The visa holder’s U.S. contact should be held accountable to ensure the visa holder either departs the U.S. on time or files a visa extension in time. If the U.S. contact fails to keep track of his or her sponsored foreign visitors, that contact shouldn’t be allowed to sponsor anyone else for at least five years.
Most information I suggest adding to the card is information the State Department and/or the USCIS currently collects. Except the bio-metric information, most information is collected before the visa holder’s arrival and can be stored on a smart ID card in advance. At the port of entry, all the agent has to do is to add a photo and bio-metric information to the card and hand it to the visa holder. The visa holder should use the smart ID card anywhere within the U.S. where proof of identification is required.
The smart ID card is nothing new. The technology has been around for more than three decades, and competition has driven down the cost tremendously. Many countries that are normally technically less advanced than the U.S. are already using the smart ID card. Turkey implemented the first smart card driver’s license system in 1987. The Estonian government started to issue smart cards in 2002 as primary identification for citizens (to replace the usual passport in domestic and EU use). Spain and Belgium have used smart ID cards since 2009. Smart ID cards are most widely used in India: over 500 million Indian citizens who are 18 or older had received a smart ID card as of 2013. These governments and authorities use smart ID cards not only because of their improved security, better data, and reduced processing costs, but also because issuing a smart ID card is a lower-cost option than other traditional means. It’s a viable and affordable option for the U.S. to use to keep track of who’s coming and going and whether anyone is overstaying.
Because it would cost twenty trillion dollars, if run by this administration. Forty if Hillary gets to do it.
on purpose.....same reason immigration laws are not enforced..same reason promise after promise...twenty years of REFORM talk...nothing happens because it's too lucrative for those to reform
Although I would want to avoid a “Mark of the Beast” scenario, perhaps all residents in the US need a national ID of one kind or another.
You want to vote? Where’s your card?
You want to buy a house or rent an apartment? Where’s your card?
You want to attend public school or college? Where’s your card?
You’re applying for a job opening? Where’s your card?
And there should be a $100,000 fine for any official, landlord, school or business owner who does business with someone who does not have a proper card.
Low cost way to clear out any illegal aliens and to clean up the voting scams.
The communist Democrats would find some "legal" way to
to get them to their illegal alien voter base and other invaders to come later. I believe a great deal to the phony ID market, phony document market is secretly aided and abetted by the Democrat Party.
Seems Hitler wanted a way of identifying people as well when he tattooed them with a serial number. Perhaps a chip under our skin would suffice and the need for a plastic card would be eliminated. (Sarc? maybe not)
I’m sitting here literally mouth agape trying to understand how a reasonable person thinks that’s a good idea. What ClearCase described, if not meant as sarcasm, is about as fascist as it gets.
We’re already peering down the barrel of communism. Let’s not continue our descent with ideas like that.
instead of building centers for Mexican “day-laborers”, considering they’ve been known to loiter outside of Wal Mart & Home Depot stores in search of manual labor day work, why doesn’t anybody see “probable cause” to get a search warrant & at least demand some proof that people begging for work are eligible to work in this country.
Common sense and reason tell one the reason why these no English speaking men are begging for day labor jobs is because they are illegal, uneducated & illiterate in TWO languages, and therefore cannot even fill out a job application & be laundered through temp agencies (like many illegals do. Employers can string along temp workers forever, knowing they are illegals..........but also knowing that—as long as they don’t hire the temp as a permanent worker——they still can claim they don’t hire illegal immigrants because the illegals technically work for the temp agency. If you don’t hire the temp, you don’t have to pay him Obamacare benefits.)
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is infamous for doing immigration sweeps on day laborers, which makes the liberals outrage so fishy. Everybody KNOWS day-laborers are illegal, so everybody knows it’s NOT about Arpaio randomly harassing brown-skinned people; Arpaio was focused only on those loitering and begging on private property such as Pruitt’s furniture store parking lot, interrupting their business from operating....and taxpayers who are legal DESERVE protection by the law enforcent people.
Since liberals turned Phoenix into a sanctuary city, the State legislature passed SD 1070 to shut down the criminal racketeering enterprise of Phoenix city council...put in place & bought off by public sector unions bossed by commies who then get to hand-select their own commie police chief..........Joe Arpaio is sheriff of Maricopa County, so liberals on the city council don’t like him enforcing laws in their sanctuary city....but the biggest problem with Arpaio is that he didn’t think about getting a search warrant before accosting people looking for work about their eligibility to work.
Liberals actually believe that immigration is a HUMAN RIGHT that government ought not interfere with. Labor union strike picket lines are real to liberals & you’re a “scab” if you cross them, but oddly & hypocritically, liberal consider international borders to be arbitrary meaningless demarcations on maps and very unreal.......so if you cross a union strike picket line because you need a job to feed yourself and your family, still you’re a “scab” and deserve to have your knees broken....BUT if you cross the border looking for work to make money to send back to Mexico (because the U.S. dollar spends so well in Mexico you only have to work 6 months out of the year in the USA to vacation for the other 6 months) for your family & help drag down wages by working cheap.....liberals call you victim & hero........
Please explain to me why you oppose the concept of a Driver’s License.
What I propose is not different. No tattoo. No chip under the skin. No Antisemitism. No Fascism.
I just want services to be provided to people who have a right to the services. I’m sure you want the same thing. I stated my plan on how to get there.
What’s your counter-proposal?
See my #10
Trump (and many others, like me) want the illegal aliens to self-deport because they find that there is no benefit to them when they live in the US.
Do you want that?
How do you propose to get there?
If we cannot identify who doesn’t deserve jobs, housing, and government benefits, then how can we have illegals self-deport?
I think the only alternative is to have roving gangs of vigilants trying to catch these people — and I oppose that 100%.
Great idea....
When we all get our national ID card, we can erase that pesky fourth amendment in the constitution as well.../ S
I might add to my previous comment, each point you made is a states issue, not a federal issue...
If your state wants to issue an ID card you need to present before you can transact any of your points...
I have no problem, I just won’t live there and move to a state that respects my freedom....
“I have a piece of plastic in my pocket; therefore I am no longer protected by the Fourth Amendment.”
Is that what you’re worried about? Because I don’t see how you make that leap.
Illegal search and seizure? Sure, I have a piece of plastic in my pocket, but the government cannot search me and cannot illegally seize it — because the Fourth Amendment is still in force.
Now, if a human wishes to apply for a job and the business owner says, “May I see your card, please?” I don’t see THAT as a case where the government is illegally searching and seizing anything at all.
Can you clarify your position?
Well, I would support that very much. I truly like state-level solutions in preference to federal mandates. Some states will have no illegal aliens, and some states will have lots of illegal aliens. If you want to live in one of those states, you should certainly have the right.
——The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things ...——
Secure in their persons....I don’t want the fedzella tracking me or what I do...
Potential for abuse is very high....where do you draw the line?
Social Securty number was never was supposed to be used as a document to verify who you are....either..
IRS scandal ring a bell? ... Not quite the same, but close...
Well, I don’t see what you see.
I opposed the Patriot Act under Bush because I didn’t want to government tracking me. As far as I’m concerned my proposal is merely a way to say, “You’re a citizen” and I don’t consider that to be a big deal. After all, when I get a job, my employer shouts out to the government: “NEW GUY ON OUR PAYROLL! HIS SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER IS ...”
I guess that’s “being tracked” but I don’t consider it the end of the world. What would be new would be a $100,000 fine for that employer if they hire someone who doesn’t belong in the country.
States already have licensing and identification requirements for citizens. There’s ZERO need for a national ID scheme. It infringes on the sovereignty of every state.
The problem isn’t illegals “self-deporting,” the problem is a lack of enforcement. This is very well documented. If ICE catches an illegal, they’re literally just releasing them, like nothing happened. If we actually enforced our immigration laws, we’d clean up the problem in 9-12 months.
We make it too easy for illegals to be comfortable. If some Guatemalan hops the border into Texas, they can go to a day labor site, work for 8 hours, and walk away with cash in hand. They can use that cash to buy food and fuel and other items. Fine. But you want to buy a house? A car? Utilities? How about simply getting a driver license? If you can’t prove that you’re an American citizen, you get none of that.
I don’t have an explicit issue with border hoppers coming over here, working menial labor jobs, and taking money back home to spend in Juarez. I have a problem with border hoppers coming here, getting driver licenses, getting trashed in some hole in the wall and killing a family while driving drunk. I have a problem with border hoppers funneling drugs into our communities. I have a problem with border hoppers breaking into our homes, raping our women, killing our cops, and bringing their violent bullshit into our border states. THAT’S what we should be fighting.
Americans are already required to provide a dozen forms of identification to buy a house, a car, a phone, get a line of credit, or even vote! Why the Hell do I need another one if the ones I already have already “fixing” the illegal immigration problem. The issue is enforcement, not more regulations! ESPECIALLY those that require additional burden on American citizens and infringe on state sovereignty.
——Well, I don’t see what you see.——
I see a federal government completely out of control, moving very quickly to a command and control type of governance....
I simply do not want to give them any more tools to try and control me...
The concept of freedom is anathema to many in DC...
I for one will not give them willingly a ball and chain to wrap around my legs...
After a while, it’s easy to come to the conclusion that powers that be have deliberately created the immigration crisis in the US and Europe to disrupt social and economic order.
We are reaching the point where citizens of a free republic are making a clear case that we now need (and should want) a universal national ID card.
This has been the plan All along:
Kill the dollar as reserve currency of the world.
The petro-dollar is nearly dead. Special Drawing Rights basket of currencies will become the world’s new reserve currency very soon.
In the ensuing economic-social-political crisis, introduce a universal ID card for the good of physical and economic security.
This is where we’re going, plain as day.
RE: “I’m sitting here literally mouth agape trying to understand how a reasonable person thinks that’s a good idea. What ClearCase described, if not meant as sarcasm, is about as fascist as it gets.
We’re already peering down the barrel of communism. Let’s not continue our descent with ideas like that.”
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