The way you police ILLEGAL ALIENS is to require all LEGAL immigrants to carry a digital ID card, and digital visas . A simple green card makes it easy to copy and forge, a digital ID on the line of most drivers licenses today would make it easy to verify the identity of immigrants and weed out the ILLEGALS from the legals. No need for a national ID, we live in freedom here and an ID is another chunk out of our freedoms.
If you can't see the danger of requiring a national ID then you have a problem.
I don't see the big deal with and ID. You have to show ID for everything, like cashing a check, getting on a plane. Why not have one that means something and would discourage illegals.
The way you police ILLEGAL ALIENS is to require all LEGAL immigrants to carry a digital ID card, and digital visas .
That's all fine and good but how do you tell legal immigrants and illegal aliens from U.S. citizens?
Do you all of a sudden turn whiter and lose your accent when you become a U.S. citizen?
How do you know that the 100% Mayan-blood Mexican-American born in California is a U.S. citizen but that the blond and blue eyed Ukrainian bombshell cleaning your teeth at the dentist's office is a legal immigrant or maybe even an illegal alien?
Maybe Jarhead and I don't worry too much about ID cards since, when we were on active duty, we had to show our military ID's just to enter the base or shop at the Navy Exchange or enter the gym.
The Federal Government, your State Government, your County Government and your City Government already know exactly who you are and exactly where you live. I know because their tax forms always end up in my mailbox.
So, what, exactly, is so horrible about a National ID Card?
That fact that "Where are your papers?" was a standard line given to Nazi characters in World War II movies?
So what?
The U.S. Interstates highways are modeled after a Nazi idea......The Autobahn.
Just as we need a Passport to travel abroad.......and only to travel abroad......we can use National Id Card for only certain rare occurrences such as getting a job or flying an airplane (a potential weapon of mass destruction).