9. National ID Card – Get Over It
Immigration
Bill, A big con job
Richard Salbato
I have now read the proposed Immigration Bill that BO and Congress is planning to pass as soon as possible. If you read it you would think it was written
by conservative republicans unless you read carefully. What this bill does not say is how they are
going to finance it. What they are doing
here is letting future congresses pass finance bills to pay for it. Why does that bother me? Because under President Bush we passed the
two most important things for any immigration bill: 1. building a fence and 2. the
Biometric National ID Card for any employment.
However, after these were passed, the Democratic Congress refused to finance
the fence; and the states refused to pay for the making of the ID cards that
should have been paid for by the Federal Government. In the end nothing was done.
The very idea of a COMPREHENSIVE Immigration Bill upsets me because you
cannot vote for what you like without also voting for what you do not
like. What the majority of people want
is to close the border first and then deal with the 14,000,000 illegal
immigrants after that is done.
I believe that we have to build a double fence and staff it with Border
Patrol and electric ground sensors every ten miles. That is expensive but it will save more
dollars in crime, packed jails and state expenses on schools and medical care
than it costs to build and defend. In
other words it will save money.
The second thing that has to be done (even though many liberals and
conservatives are against it) is to change the Social Security Card to a
Biometric ID Social Security for all citizens and make it a mandatory ID for
any job. This alone will drive most of
the 14,000,000 illegal immigrants out of the country. By Biometric we mean that the card cannot be
forged and it is on a national data base that records your birth certificate,
your nationalization papers, or your green card, that proves you are legally
allowed to work in
All the arguments against a national ID care are stupid: the big brother argument that
In fact, I want this data base to also include all major crime, like
pedophilia, violent crime, robbery, excessive drunk driving charges, and work
history. I can find all this information
on the internet right now, but this makes it easier for companies hiring and
for the government tracing someone they might be looking for including
terrorists. All four of the people
arrested in the
The way the Social Security works now is no different than a Biometric
SSC except that the SSC can be easily forged and the system cannot check it out
without weeks of investigation. When I was born I had a SSC within a month of
birth and the number shows how old I am, but employers do not know that and
often a forged or stolen SSC card can be used by a 20 year old and the card
shows a man 100 years old. A legal
Biometric Card will show in seconds his age his birth place, his work history
and his criminal record.
Added to these two Immigration Laws must be very heavy finds for
businesses or even individuals who hire people without this card. If you still fear big government, reduce the
size of government.
And so you will know, I have been in 34 countries and I don’t know any
that does not already have a national ID card.
Who Are Illegal Immigrants?
You have to have my background to understand the huge sin of illegal
immigrants. I grew up in a border town,
The New Immigration Bill is a Huge Con
Job
Democrats are worried about the November 2010 elections. They know they are going to loose a lot of
house and senate seats no matter what but they are trying to figure out how to
hang on to the majority. This bill they
passed to make it easy for Porto Rico to become a state is one of their plans
to get votes. The passing of this union worker bill is another. But what they need the most is to hang on to
the Spanish Vote which they carried in the last election. What Mexican
Americans want is another amnesty bill, but Democrats cannot pass an amnesty
vote because 70% of Americans are against it.
What if, however, most of the 14,000,000 illegals
could vote in November? To prove this is their master plan, let us read the
actual bill first. What you will note is there is no fence.
Immigration
Bill
1. The
crackdown on employers relies on the creation of national identity cards. "These cards
will be fraud-resistant, tamper-resistant, wear resistant, and machine-readable
social
security cards containing a photograph and an electronically
coded micro-processing chip which possesses a unique biometric identifier for
the authorized card-bearer," reads the bill summary.
2. More Border Patrol officers
3. More Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents,
worksite inspectors, document fraud investigators and drug-war agents. [not financed]
4. The "installation of high-tech ground sensors throughout the
southern border and for equipping all border patrol officers with the technological
capability to respond to activation of the ground sensors in the area they are
patrolling." [not
financed]
5. More prosecution of drug smuggling, human trafficking and
unauthorized border crossing
6. "[I]ncreases in the number of sport utility
vehicles, helicopters, power boats, river boats, portable computers to track
illegal immigrants and drug smugglers while inside of a border patrol vehicle, night vision equipment,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
(UAS), Remote Video Surveillance Systems (RVSS),
scope trucks, and Mobile Surveillance Systems (MSS)." [not financed]
7. All prisoners will be checked for immigration status and deported if
found to lack documentation.
8. DHS will "identify, investigate, and initiate removal proceedings"
against folks who came here legally but didn't leave. [not
financed]
9. The bill would create "a
broad-based registration program that requires all illegal immigrants living in
the U.S. to come forward to register, be screened, and, if eligible, complete
other requirements to earn legal status, including paying taxes."
The full
summary can be read
here.
The bill would
make it illegal for anyone other than an employer to ask to see the enhanced
social security card: "Possession
of a fraud-proof social security card will only serve as evidence of lawful
work-authorization but will in no way be permitted to serve--or shall be
required to be shown--as proof of citizenship or lawful immigration status. It
will be unlawful for any person, corporation; organization local, state, or federal law enforcement
officer; local or state government; or any other entity to require or even ask
an individual cardholder to produce their social security card for any purpose
other than electronic verification of employment eligibility and verification
of identity for Social Security Administration purposes. No
personal information will be stored on the electronic chip contained within the
social security card other than the individual's name, date of birth, social
security number, and unique biometric identifier."
Other
than number 9 and no fence no conservative would object to this bill, until you
read the secret.
The Con Job
Democrats hope to convince
people that they have a real strategy for ending the problem of illegal
immigration. And if they can convince people of that, they think they can get a
path to legalization for the existing community of illegal immigrants as a way
to mop up the remainder of the problem.
The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services, a division of the Department of Homeland Security,
already has drafted a plan for processing 13 million illegal alien applicants
for amnesty in a 30-week
period at an estimated cost of $1 billion.
The plan anticipates
the approval of so-called "Comprehensive Immigration Reform"
legislation pending in Congress and assumes a nine-month ramp-up period for
processing of applications.
The undated
draft report anticipates the possibility of the legislation requiring public benefits
to amnesty applicants.
"If the
statute requires interim benefits
while application pending, issue discrete variant of status document (shorter
term duration that [sic] if issued after prospective immigrant status
granted)," the 14-page memo states.
Sen. Charles
Schumer, D-N.Y., has enlisted evangelical leaders to promote the plan.
In other words, this is an extremely fast track for
citizenship and a sure way to get the Spanish vote.
Note One:
Is a biometric, national ID card an immigration game changer?
The Democrats'
immigration-reform proposal (pdf)
is 26 pages long. Pages 8 through 18 are
devoted to "ending illegal employment through biometric employment
verification." I don't think the Democrats are going to like me
calling this a biometric national ID card, as they go to great lengths to say
that it is not a national ID card, and make it "unlawful for any person,
corporation; organization local, state, or federal law enforcement officer;
local or state government; or any other entity to require or even ask an
individual cardholder to produce their social security card for any purpose
other than electronic verification of employment eligibility and verification
of identity for Social Security Administration purposes."
But it's still a biometric
national ID card. It's handed out by the Social Security Administration and
employers are required to check it when hiring new employees. Essentially, if
you want to participate in the American economy, you need this card. "Within five (5) years of the date of
enactment, the fraud-proof social security card will serve as the sole acceptable
document to be produced by an employee to an employer for employment
verification purposes," the bill says. "This requirement will exist
even if the employer does not yet possess the capability to electronically
verify the employee by scanning the card through a card reader."
The theory here is simple:
Illegal immigration is a problem because illegal immigrants can get jobs. As
the bill says, "in order to prevent future waves of illegal immigration,
this proposal recognizes that no matter what we do on the border, our ports of
entry, and in the interior, we will not be completely effective unless we can
prevent the hiring, recruitment, or referral of unauthorized aliens in
That's why some think the
biometric ID card a game changer for immigration politics. Enforcement might be
popular, but the public knows full well that it doesn't really work. As things
stand, the border is pretty militarized but the flow of illegal immigrants
hasn't stopped. By focusing on the employment prospects of illegal immigrants
and forcing workplaces to use biometric identification,
Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on
Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907 is exactly what we need to make law
today.
'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in
good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be
treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to
discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.
"But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here.
"Any
man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at
all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but
one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but
one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
If this was the law, there would be no discrimination
because you would not be able to tell who is a Mexican or an Italian, or who is
an African or an Brazilian.