[af_vet_rr]

Just out of curiousity, how do you police illegal immigration without some form of I.D.?

The same way you do now with existing forms of I.D. that all states currently use.

The problem with illegal immigration isn't one to do with having a national (or even a state) I.D., it is one having to do with those who hire them, and those states who allow them to collect various forms of public assistance without having already-existing proper forms of state I.D.s.

[Jack Black]

The problem with illegal immigration isn't one to do with having a national (or even a state) I.D., it is one having to do with those who hire them, Because the most frequent documents used to verify employment status are easily forged the employers have a solid out. This is one reason the draconian $10,000 fine idea is a non-starter. The farm owner simply shows up with the fake ID (because they kept photo copies) and the prosecutor now has to show "you should have known". That's a very hard case to win.

[XJarhead]

The same way you do now with existing forms of I.D. that all states currently use.

Many of those existing forms of I.D.'s are easily forged. Social Security cards even more easily. Without an integrated database, an employer can request and receive valid I.D. information from an illegal, only to find out weeks or even months later that it was bogus.

If the feds are dependent on inadequate state I.D.'s for identification, how are they supposed to enforce the immigration laws properly?

I'm really not taking a position on this because I don't like the "National I.D." thing anyway. But I do see a problem with controlling illegal workers under the current system.