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There's no way in the world that a system like this would ever be implemented. Remember, National ID is being pushed by big government types, not privacy advocates and libertarians. Having personal identifying information is the whole point of it.

Indeed. And a proposal such as mine could help remove support for a system which includes personal identification. There are a lot of people out there who are vaguely uncomfortable with personal identification in a national ID program, but who also see a serious problem in our inability to identify non-citizens, and therefore lean towards going along with a full-blown national ID system. If a no-personal-ID system which would quickly identify non-citizens, and thus make it easy to week out illegal aliens, were on the table, many people who currently lean towards accepting a full-blown national ID system would shift to supporting the no-personal-ID version, thus taking some wind out of the sails of those who want to register all of us personally in order to control us for their own purposes.