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Take a sample of your DNA without your knowledge (people lose hair everyday), and match your identity to one in the database. I can either delete it, thereby deleting your citizenship,

Which you can re-establish fairly easily, so why would they bother?

or I can add all your personal info to it and make myself a nice illegal government database.

Someone who can obtain a strand of your hair and all your personal info can already combine this info into a database entry. I don't see how the existence of biometrics-only citizenship database would expand this ability.

If you don't think that the gov does not maintain illegal databases, I'd like to sell you my house for a million bucks, t is worth it, trust me.

I know all too well that the government cannot be trusted not to maintain illegal databases. I am a Pennsylvania resident who has bought several guns from an FFL in the past year. In case you haven't been following this story, it recently came out that the Pennsylvania state police have been maintaining an illegal database of gun buyers, in violation of both state and federal law, by recording and retaining information from NICS searches. The FBI has notified the state in writing that this practice is illegal and must stop immediately, providing excellent ammo to the citizen's group which has filed suit to stop the practice and have the database destroyed. To me, this is a good example of the difficulty of getting both state and federal authorities to cooperate in an illegal scheme against citizens -- when one entity starts running such a scheme, there's always somebody on the other side who has incentive to ferret out and publicize the scheme; in this case it was the FBI auditors.

"Which you can re-establish fairly easily, so why would they bother? "

Really? Based on what? Do you not understand what a corrupt and non-effective government we already have?

"I don't see how the existence of biometrics-only citizenship database would expand this ability. "

Simple. We don't trust much these days. Tell everyone what a secure and foolproof system biometrics is and the will give additional credence to the system making it harder to justify yourself.

Now, what would your biodb give that we don't have already that wouldn't be a pain in the ass and cause us all a loss of additional control over our identities to the federal government?

I'll make my point perfectly clear.

We have 27,000+ federal, state, and local guns laws on the books. The liberals want us to create thousands more because the first 27,000 don't seem to work. We don't enforce them, that is why they don't work, and they are enforceable.

For illegal immigration, we already have thousands of laws on the books. We don’t enforce a single one of those, either, and they are also enforceable.

So, why are you backing the establishment of an entirely new system within the government, which will be comprised of thousands of additional new laws, when we are not even enforcing the enforceable laws that we already have on the books?