I forgot the punchline (to my non-joke).
"What you say? We end up with everyone legal, AND everyone saddled with invasive, privacy-raping biometric National ID?"
(Um, that was the punchline.)
See how easy it is to impose this sort of totalitarian nightmare on a "free people"? A little fear, a little threat, a little promise of safety and security -- in exchange, as per the Standard Bargain -- for your FREEDOM -- and there ya go.
sure, we'd all lose our freedoms if we had a SS card with a basic PIN number form of authentication.