Monday, March 08, 2010

ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan




The Wall Street Journal reports:
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.
Bismarck's welfare-warfare state wants to keep tabs on you.