I was driving to work this morning and my favorite radio station (KFTK, 97.1 News Talk Radio) was talking about the biometric National ID Card that has been proposed by Senators Chuck Shumer (D) and Lindsey Graham (R) as a part of the comprehensive immigration reform legislation. Under their concept, every single worker in America would be required to have this card to get a job. This National ID Card would have a microchip in it that contained your name, social security number, your finger print, and even your medical records! Good grief! This thing would be an identity thief's greatest treasure. It also seems it might have other "expanded" uses such as controlling your movements between states, voting, and so on.
I seem to remember the Soviet Union using similar documents to control your movement and everything you did within the national borders. And these "Americans" want this for our country? I can see the Founding Fathers rolling over in their graves right now! This would be the next big step in George Orwell's "Big Brother" becoming a very real and very oppressive entity.
I was born in the United States. I have an official document, my birth certificate, issued by the State of Texas that says I am a natural born American citizen. That document is recognized by the other 49 (not 56) states as verification of that fact. That same Texas birth certificate was necessary for me to get a drivers license in Missouri, another document recognized throughout the United States as proving my residency (and citizenship). That drivers license is also proof of residency and citizenship for me to vote in elections or get a job. Why do I have to get a National ID card to do what my birth certificate and state drivers license already do? Is it possible that the Federal Government is intending to control me far more than the U.S. Constitution allows? Is it possible that my State will no longer be recognized as a legitimate source of information on my residency and citizenship under the grand "Big Brother" scheme of things?
If they really want to control illegal immigrants, the Federal Government, with the assistance of the State governments, needs to enforce the laws we already have. It needs to control our borders and those that cross them. It needs to track those who enter and ensure that they leave the country when their visa expires. The Federal Government needs to do the job it was created for and quit trying to do jobs given (and reserved by the Constitution) to the States. It is time for the Federal Government to find and deport every illegal alien, not grant them amnesty. Its is time for the Federal Government and State Governments to ensure that not one taxpayer dollar is spent in providing services to illegal immigrants other than to provide life saving medical care just before they are picked up and deported. Not one dollar of taxpayer money should be spent on providing them education or food stamps or health care or anything else.
Congress needs to forget the National ID Card and get back to really controlling immigration, rather than finding excuses to do nothing so that they have a "grateful" voter base. I don't need "Big Brother" putting everything about me on a computer chip that tracks my every move. That is not the freedom my Founding Fathers envisioned. That is not the America I want my children and grandchildren to live in.
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Do you, then, oppose Arizona's immigration law?
ReplyDeleteIf you are discomforted by the thought of legal US citizens needing extensive documentation to prove their legal status, then you should feel empathy for the Hispanic- and Latino-Americans of legal-standing citizenship who will be unfairly called upon to prove their citizenship when the new law comes into effect. They are, after all, legal citizens who did nothing wrong (just like you).