Posted on 03/10/2010 6:30:02 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON, D.C. - There's more talk on Capitol Hill about requiring all U.S. citizens to carry a worker ID card before getting a job. It's part of a major overhaul of immigration policy, and the plan could go before President Obama as soon as this week.
All U.S. citizens would be required to carry an ID cards according to this plan. It's meant to keep companies from hiring illegal immigrants. No matter where you apply for a job, under the plan, you would have to have a card carrying bio-metric information on a microchip. It's like your fingerpints, or a scan of the veins in your hands.
The ID cards would basically prove you are who you say you are, and that you are a legal citizen of the United States. The program is being pushed in the U.S. Senate by Democrat Chuck Schumer (D- New York), and Republican Lindsay Graham (R- South Carolina).
Unlike the optional E-verify system that some companies use, this would be mandatory for all companies to use.
It's drawing some criticism from privacy advocates, who say this moving toward a national ID card, giving the government too much power to track you. Sen. Graham says it's simply a way to keep companies and employees honest.
"What I want to make sure is when an employer is presented with a social security card, you can easily verify that it is real and genuine and the person presenting the card is who they say they are. If we will do that one thing, it will make it very hard to hire illegals," said Sen. Graham.
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From what I've heard, they've already built the Death Care info computers in SC.
Both (R) and (D) have got to be in on all this, otherwise, why would they have all this set up already, way before the first debate even starts?
Maybe this is why the Republicans never do away with anything the left creates. They just accept it and move on. If Death Care passes, who believes the Republicans will cancel it? They've never canceled anything else.
Agreed. And our own anti-illegal immigrant voices made it possible.
Many freepers called for a big government response to illegal immigration. A national/universal work permit issued by big brother is the only way to make that possible. It was precisely the call from the right for big government that gives cover to the left to implement it.
The irony is that Napolitano’s list of “haters”, which includes many anti-illegals, will be applied to the work permits long before the work permits impact illegals. Was a Jewish architect used to design Auschwitz?
The truth is that prior to the 1920s there was no such thing as an “illegal immigrant” as we know that term today. The same movement that brought us Smoot-Hawley brought us “illegal immigration” with the clear intent to have big government limit the movement of both products and people accross our borders.
That big government movement just continues to grow ... and occasioually uses people on the right as useful idiots.
Communist vernacular .
No card no work
No obey, no card, no work
You are so right. They've been setting up foolproof systems that have failed since 1988, when the first worker id law was passed. Why would this one be any different?
EXACTLY. We need to STOP using that term.
I’m not so sure people have even picked up on it but it needs to be brought out as I find the term offensive and demeaning. It is a negative term. We/they are employees not workers.
Oh I recognized it for sure. That’s why I commented on it. It needs to have more attention brought to it. It is a negative term and I find it offensive.
Wouldn’t surprise me.
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