Posted on 02/11/2003 9:32:24 AM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
Saying that she is strongly opposed to "illegal immigrants," New York Sen. Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday that she would support a national identification card for U.S. citizens if other measures to keep illegals out of the country failed.
"I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants," Clinton told WABC Radio's John Gambling. Then, a few moments later, the Democratic Party presidential frontrunner added, "We might have to move towards an ID system even for citizens."
Clinton said she would support a national ID card as part of an overall effort to improve the U.S.'s national security.
"Clearly we have to make some tough decisions as a country," the top Democrat warned. "And one of them ought to be coming up with a much better entry and exit system so that if we're going to let people in for the work that otherwise would not be done, let's have a system that keeps track of them."
Asked specifically if she favored a national identification system, Clinton said she would support "at least a visa ID, some kind of an entry and exit ID. And, you know, perhaps, although I'm not a big fan of it, we might have to move towards an ID system even for citizens."
Sen. Clinton, whose husband opened the floodgates to illegal immigrants in 1996 in hopes of naturalizing them in time for that year's presidential election, complained that too many Americans were employing illegals.
"People have to stop employing illegal immigrants," she told WABC. "I mean, come up to Westchester, go to Suffolk and Nassau Counties, stand in the street corners in Brooklyn or the Bronx (and) you're going to see loads of people waiting to get picked up to go do yard work and construction work and domestic work. You know, this is not a problem that the people coming into the country are solely responsible for. They wouldn't be coming if we didn't put them to work."
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Terrorism is a method and cannot be destroyed. The War on Terrorism, like the War on Drugs and the War on Poverty is perpetual. All powers ceded for the 'temporary' extent of the WoT are permanent.
Think I'm wrong? Ask yourself under what conditions the War on Terrorism could be declared over, and its war powers ended.
they will have to answer to me, and you.
LOL! And what are we going to do about it, 50 years after the fact (I'm being generous, the WoT will still be in full swing in 50 years), when two generations have never known a time without national ID cards? Will you sign a harshly worded petition? Write a letter to the editor or to your congressman? Yeah, that'll scare 'em. When both major parties are behind national ID and have been that way for decades, who will you vote for?
The only chance we have to stop national ID cards is today.
Right wing fascists and left wing fascists are both fascists.
"I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants," So Says Sen. Clinton. That Is a Bald-Faced LIE
"Clearly we have to make some tough decisions as a country," the top Democrat warned. Ohhhh, Shes the Top DemoncRAT now, eh?
Here's a rather relevant quote from last year: "Hillary Rotten wants power from the people and over the people, but there’s only one problem: the people keep demanding ideas. She’s afraid to articulate her real ideas, of course, because if she did she would end up like she did after her infamous 1994 health care debacle. So Hillary Rotten, like her supporters throughout the country, are left with a single emotion and a single policy: Bitterness.Thanks to the N.Y. Leftists, this wretched woman's time has only just begun.
Impossible to ascertain what the message is in this post.
In a word, yes. If I accept your premise. But a digital picture would only appear in a data base one time. Why? Because the data base administrator would run dual picture searches periodically. (Maybe even when a picture is entered, and nail the foe who is entering fake information, or at least stop them).
Other than that, I agree with y'all who want the government out of this business. I hope you have complained to your government and Mexico, because they are printing IDs for illegal immigrants as we speak.
Okay, I have a stupid question, What happens with Identical Twins? What happens when someone looks almost a mirror image of someone else? There would be no way to do this realistically.
This is the same problem as face recognition, Ever heard the saying everyone has an identical twin? What if someone "appears" to look like someone else? What sort of red tape will one have to go thru in order to PROVE that they are them? Today as it stands if you have your identity stolen, It takes literally YEARS to straighten out. This is not a feasible option this data base.
How long before she would want it tattooed on our arms?
I really hate this strawman argument. Believe me, if the undesirable jobs were really needed, and only legal citizens were available to fill those job slots, they'd be filled. Then, watch the free-market system work to adjust pay scales and product costs.
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