WSJ: ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan
By Laura Meckler | WSJ
March 9, 2009
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.
"It's the nub of solving the immigration dilemma politically speaking," Mr. Schumer said in an interview. The card, he said, would directly answer concerns that after legislation is signed, another wave of illegal immigrants would arrive.
The biggest objections to the biometric cards may come from privacy advocates, who fear they would become de facto national ID cards that enable the government to track citizens.
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National ID tax
Plus I bet they will soon be charging an annual license fee to carry one of these cards. The revenues generated by the ID cards would be huge. This we have to fight.
There is another link to this
There is another link to this story that was posted earlier here at this link
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/128363
Lindsay Graham
Is a sneaky globalist, who needs to be arrested for treason
Try this link
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB2000142405274870395490457511...
Or access the article through google news, clicking continue led me to a subscription page.
I look forward to seeing the text of this bill, who is exempted from the ID, and who must record the ID before allowing certain people to work. My initial guess from how they deal with this in the past is that US Citizens, resident aliens, and foreign nationals lacking federal documentation will be required in the text of the bill to obtain this ID. These groups are all directly created by Congress, or fall within the exclusive domain of Congress' plenary power. However, This conspicuously leaves out all Americans who are not statutory US Citizens, but who are nationals and citizens of their states.
The requirement to record this ID before allowing work is most likely a requirement only for those places of work which are "employers." This again can not cover private businesses who have not contracted with the government to participate in the deception and theft of American's property. Furthermore, nationals working for "employers" will find that they are legally in the right to continue working without becoming enumerated, but will find that it is increasingly onerous to fight their HR and legal departments on this and other issues related to citizenship, domicile, and status as a non-taxpayer.
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Lindsey Graham is sponsoring
Lindsey Graham is sponsoring this! Lindsey is SUCH a piece of GARBAGE! We have to run a candidate against him and get rid of him!
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Bob Conley was the last good
Bob Conley was the last good candidate to try to unseat Graham. I believe if Conley had gotten enough money, he could have done it. His biggest problem was a lack of funds, and Graham had far more money to spend in the campaign.
That card'll be great! With
That card'll be great! With built-in RFID technology, it can be a drivers license, hunting permit, movie pass, credit/debit card, IRS tax tracker, HHS child custody device, Social security/medicare/Obamacare access driver, Police tracker. You name it!
All you gotta do is have that lil old piece of plastic on you as you drive or walk past a simple radio transmission device.
And Heaven forbid you don't have that card on you as you walk down the street. You'll automatically be an illegal human!
1984 is so 80s.
"Cowards & idiots can come along for the ride but they gotta sit in the back seat!"
Adding More Laws Will Not Help
If the federal government would stop forcing the states to provide social services, education, health care, housing, etc. to illegals the illegals would "stay away in droves". Change the laws to eliminate the anchor baby. Only children born in the US, of parents legally in the US, should be citizens at birth.
Since these individuals are
Since these individuals are "undocumented", they have no licenses or more importantly no birth certificates. They have not been securitized, and they are not under the maritime/admiralty jurisdiction here in this country. This is why you Alex Jones yelling about "illegals" being let go at traffic stops all the time. The courts have no jurisdiction over these individuals. This ID card is the way to change that and get them "birthed" as long as they sign and/or give their biometric ID.
Jordan Maxwell on birth certificates:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1dAiz6_14g
I never understood
I never understood why the government would allow million of uneducated illegals into the country without doing anything, and actually encouraging it. But maybe the plan all along was to allow them in, so they can "solve" the problem with a national ID card.
Many State already nullified Any type of National ID
Guns, national ID cards, and weed might be just the early stages of a quickly growing movement to nullify other federal laws seen as outside the scope of their constitutionally-delegated powers. In states around the country this year, bills have been proposed to defy or nullify federal laws on health care, use of national guard troops overseas, legal tender laws, cap and trade, and even the process of collecting federal income taxes.
http://fortcollins.craigslist.org/rnr/1594434706.html
Driving the momentum in Congress, Montana and Washington state last month passed nearly unheard-of statutes rejecting the federal law, which they charge will infringe on their residents' privacy and saddle states
with a $14 billion unfunded mandate. More than 30 other states have taken up similar bills or resolutions calling
on Congress to repeal Real ID or fully fund it.
http://archive.stateline.org/weekly/Stateline.org-Weekly-Ori...