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When looking at any legislation, one needs to look to the purpose behind that legislation, not at surface level, as you are prone to do. The purpose of the biometrics is not to increase American safety, or even to monitor those who come into this country. It is to increase the flow of non-Americans into this country.

AIM Report: U.S. Borders: Going-Going-Gone!
- December 22, 2006

Dr. Pastor has a simple solution to the problem of illegal immigration: Stop defending the U.S. border. "Instead of stopping North Americans at the borders," he says, "we ought to provide them with a secure biometric EZ Pass that permits cars and trucks to speed through tolls."
In fact, the FOIA e-mails and documents show that "trusted travelers" and "trusted traders" would be able to enter the U.S. just that easily, come and go and/or live here if they want to for as long as they desire. How one would qualify as "trusted" is not spelled out, but Dr. Pastor contends once a program is in place, security checks at the border and at airports could be curtailed.
Senators present at the hearing (Norm Coleman, R-Minn. and Chris Dodd, D-Conn.) were mostly non-committal.
Senator Coleman said he was concerned about security issues, and that Pastor was saying "instead of thinking small, we have got to think big, and ultimately I think we will, but I worry about the disruption before we get there."
Many of Dr. Pastor's ideas are spelled out in a CFR report, "Building a North American Community," which he co-authored. AIM has a copy. The CFR advocates "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community."
CNN's Lou Dobbs, one of the rare voices in the mainstream media to throw any light at all on this scheme, was prompted by Dr. Pastor's treatise to cry out that our political elites have "gone utterly mad."
According to the 1987 book Covert Cadre, Dr. Robert Pastor in the seventies was involved with the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a pro-Marxist think tank. The author of Covert Cadre, S. Steven Powell, wrote that "By carefully selected euphemisms, such as progressive and alternative, IPS has successfully marketed its Marxist and radical views to the mass media. And the media in turn have softened up Congress."