...there is a huge value in the government knowing who is a citizen and who is not. This is a necessary step if there is ever to be a real crackdown on illegal immigration or identity theft.
Maybe, just maybe if our boarders werent so damned porous where anyone could just waltz across them at anytime, we wouldnt need all these intrusive ID schemes.
All it is, is more Big Brother.
When the law thatll eventually make it mandatory to have a biometric chip inserted into ones body. Will you march on down to the local insertion station to be chipped?
Personally, I prefer an open source, multi-biometric citizenship database. Cards are kind of stupid, especially when you can be the card.
Slaves rejoicing in their slavery. Demanding others to be enslaved because theyre to scared to attempt to break the chains of their own enslavement.
1) While you can reduce illegal immigration at the border, you can't eliminate it. Really, with a few easy steps, you can end economic immigration without a fence at all - just by doing some interior enforcement to deny illegals the ability to get a job or to get public services. Pat Buchanan got this right. But this is only feasible if the enforcement agencies can identify WHO YOU ARE.
2) Suggesting this will lead to putting chips into people is what troubles me most about your comments. You don't NEED to put a chip on a person because each person already has several 'chips.' Finger prints, retinas, DNA, etc.
3) Be it identity theft or legal status, there needs to be an absolute way to identify that you are who you say you are.
4) Remember, I said an 'open source' multi-biometric database. Making it open sourced will prevent abuse of the system and will also allow the brightest minds to be able to identify flaws in the system.