It seems that Chuckie Schumer wants the Democrats to Go Big AND Go Home.
Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.
Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker.
The ID card plan is one of several steps advocates of an immigration overhaul are taking to address concerns that have defeated similar bills in the past.
The uphill effort to pass a bill is being led by Sens. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), who plan to meet with President Barack Obama as soon as this week to update him on their work. An administration official said the White House had no position on the biometric card.
Because I don’t care which side of the aisle you’re on, nobody but politicians and folks who do this under contract for the government likes Biometric ID’s.
If it’s a bad idea, it’s going to have Schumer and Graham’s name on it. That is not bipartisanship. That’s Graham being an idjit.
Found via CATO’s Jim Harper who has this excellent and still quite relevant piece on the topic.
Does Chuckles the Clown tell us how all that high-tech biometric data is going to be READ OUT by the average business owner. The equipment to read out biometric data is fairly expensive now, and I don’t hear the dot gov talking about supplying it for free.
The counterfeiters will just make a good copy of the card with the biometric data blank, and sell it to the illegals for the same $50 they are getting for their phony Green cards and Kali driver licenses. Without the spendy data readers, business owners will have to accept them at face value.
What’s changed?
What’s changed? MASSIVE spending to implement this, national ID, and total control of all legitimate, peaceable citizens of the US.
Which was the goal anyway.
We already HAVE a national ID system. It is called a passport. If they want to make passports biometric, fine. If they want to require everyone get a passport, we can discuss it.
But to have a national ID system separate from the passport system is pure pandering to the government employees unions to create more jobs.