Well, you have a choice. Either to be able to distinguish a citizen/legal resident from an illegal visitor or to give up on the nation's integrity. There is no third way.
Once the ID card is the mandatory symbol of citizenship, it can then be freely distributed to the third world for a sickeningly small fee by the traitors who infest our governmental Beauracracy.
Thus lowering the value of American citizenship to tupperware at Walmart.
To believe your governemnt is on your side is to drink the koolaid at Jonestown.
Bottoms up!