[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

So you're confident that the criminals will not be able to falsify or forge their "papers?" Just curious. Because if they can, it just means more checks on and hoops to jump through for the law-abiding and another paper to buy for the criminal.

[Sacajaweau]

Outlaw forgery and terrorism.....That's the real solution.

Like Duh...no matter what you come up with, there's a counter that will work and/or they'll just change their tactics.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Actually, this will make it more valuable to falsify or forge papers.

[goldstategop]

There is already a "black" market in forged drivers licenses, birth certificates, passports, and social security cards. You can get ID in the name of the dead for a price whether you're are or aren't a citizen. I'm not pretending it'll ever go away but after 9/11, the traditional opposition among conservatives to a national ID has collapsed. We no longer live in a world in which we have two oceans as moats to protect us from the world's quarrels. And we have permissive immigration policies that serve as a welcome mat to the rest of the world regardless of whether these people have our country's welfare at heart. Americans have no way to distinguish friend from foe or even to protect our borders. No country can survive for long if it can't maintain its national sovereignty. Thus, we need to determine who can legally live here. That's the key to effective enforcement of our immigration laws.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)