I appreciate Duncan Hunter's willingness to address this forum. However, I am dismayed at his apparent support for the Employment Eligibility Verification System, which was a drastic, unnecessary, dangerous part of the just-defeated pro-illegal immigration Senate bill.
Hunter: Once the border is enforced and the revolving door stops swinging, there will be enough U.S. agents available to concentrate on interior enforcement, using current laws. I would like to see the pilot program for employers, which allows them to log in employee information on new hires with the Department of Homeland Security and receive a quick determination which relieves them from the burden of further determining authenticity of the employees documents, be made mandatory.
If I read correctly, Congressman Hunter is endorsing the Bush Administration plan (which is currently in pilot) that would require all American workers to receive a REAL ID card (with an RFID chip?), and be government-authorized as "eligible" to work by the Department of Homeland Security before they can get a job.
Call me a liberty-lover, but I believe such government intrusion is not the correct response to our security problems. In fact, the remedy itself proposes great risk to security, by making personal information vulnerable to theft and prying eyes, and creating the potential to track persons and scan their cards from a distance.
I have to ask whether Congressman Hunter has thought this one through. The American people sure haven't, because most of them don't even know about it.