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On Apr 4, 5:45 pm, Hisler <His...@cocks.net> wrote:
> bipartisan group of U.S. Senators is teaming up with the Obama
> administration to legalize illegal immigrants and require biometric
> national ID cards for every American worker, prompting a swift and
> bipartisan backlash across the nation.
>
> The proposal would unconstitutionally force nearly all Americans to
> obtain the new “tamper proof” Social Security cards while
> purporting to require that all employers purchase new $800 ID
> scanners. It would also provide a “path to citizenship” for the
> estimated 12 million to 20 million illegal immigrants currently
> living in America.
>
> Led by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and
> Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York, pro-amnesty and
> national ID legislators have already started the public relations
> campaign to build support for the “new and improved” version of
> “comprehensive immigration reform.” In a column published by the
> Washington Post entitled “The right way to mend immigration,” the
> two architects provided a superficial glimpse at their agenda. And
> though the piece is lacking in details, it reveals a dangerous
> agenda that Americans must oppose in order to maintain freedom.
>
> “Our plan has four pillars: requiring biometric Social Security
> cards to ensure that illegal workers cannot get jobs; fulfilling
> and strengthening our commitments on border security and interior
> enforcement; creating a process for admitting temporary workers;
> and implementing a tough but fair path to legalization for those
> already here,” wrote Graham and Schumer. “We would require all U.S.
> citizens and legal immigrants who want jobs to obtain a high-tech,
> fraud-proof Social Security card.”
>
> The national ID cards would include a "unique biometric
> identifier," according to Graham and Schumer. Some of the likely
> candidates include finger prints, retinal scans, or even the layout
> of a person’s veins in the top of their hand. Employers who refuse
> to "swipe the card" would face "stiff fines" and "prison
> sentences," the Senators noted. “Our blueprint also creates a
> rational system for admitting lower-skilled workers,” they added.
>
> President Obama promptly signaled his approval and pledged to “act
> at the earliest possible opportunity.” The White House released a
> statement noting that the President would do everything in his
> power to push the issue, and Obama called the Schumer-Graham
> proposal “a promising, bipartisan framework which can and should be
> the basis for moving forward."
>
> After the Democrats recent success in ramming through the wildly
> unpopular health care “reform,” analysts suggested the “momentum”
> from that victory could help Obama and the Democrats in their
> efforts to pass a variety of legislation - including immigration
> “reform.” And despite broad opposition by a majority of Americans,
> the agenda marches forward.
>
> But the proposals are already meeting fierce resistance from
> legislators, citizens and non-profit groups. “This so-called
> comprehensive immigration reform really means amnesty for the 10 to
> 20 million illegal immigrants in America today,” explained
> Republican Representative Brian Bilbray of California, the chairman
> of the House Immigration Reform Caucus. “What part of the word
> 'illegal' doesn't the president understand?”
>
> Congressman Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty sent out an e-mail to
> supporters vowing to battle the proposal as well, warning that it
> was a “statist’s dream” and that the immigration issue was being
> used as “cover” for an even bigger agenda.
>
> “Instead of controlling the border and enforcing the rule of law,
> these statists want to control you,” explained the group’s
> president, John Tate. “Allowing our government to have this much
> ‘prying power’ in our lives will ultimately result in the TOTAL
> loss of freedom.”
>
> Tate noted in the letter that this sort battle often determines
> whether a country will remain free or descend into tyranny. “You
> see, once ‘well-meaning’ government bureaucrats know exactly how we
> live our lives, it won’t be long until they try to run them,” added
> Tate. “In fact, it will only be a matter of time until they spend
> their workdays making sure you and I don’t go anywhere we
> ‘shouldn’t,’ buy anything we ‘shouldn’t,’ read anything we
> ‘shouldn’t,’ eat anything we ‘shouldn’t’ or smoke anything we
> ‘shouldn’t.’”
>
> In the media, commentators have also blasted the proposal.
> “Graham's [Republican In Name Only] tactics will enable the
> President to turn illegal aliens into documented Democrats.  And in
> the process, hand the Federal Government yet another way to monitor
> and control our lives,” explained Roger Hedgecock in a piece for
> Human Events. “Opposition to this tyranny will come from all parts
> of our divided political spectrum,” he predicted.
>
> And indeed, even the liberal American Civil Liberties Union is
> gearing up to fight the “bipartisan” effort. “It is fundamentally a
> massive invasion of people's privacy,” said Chris Calabrese, the
> ACLU’s legislative counsel. “We're not only talking about
> fingerprinting every American, treating ordinary Americans like
> criminals in order to work. We're also talking about a card that
> would quickly spread from work to voting to travel to pretty much
> every aspect of American life that requires identification.”
>
> These amnesty and biometric national ID proposals are dangerous for
> a lot of reasons. And this battle is a crucial one. The Social
> Security cards will quickly go from being required to work — which
> is bad enough itself — to being needed for everything imaginable,
> from health care to everyday purchases. But the problem is not a
> lack of biometric ID cards for the serfs; it is the wide open
> Southern border and the unconstitutional incentives encouraging
> illegal immigration.
>
> Legalizing the tens of millions of illegal immigrants will harm
> America on several fronts. Not only does it send a loud message
> that the rule of law means nothing (except if it furthers statist
> aims), it will also fundamentally alter the voting dynamics of
> America. The true solution to the illegal immigration crisis is to
> stop providing perks like welfare to law breakers, and to properly
> police the border and defend the states from invasion.
>
> Citizens must unite to defeat this effort. If Obama and his allies
> like Senator Graham manage to force this monstrosity on the
> American people, the last remaining semblances of freedom will be
> in critical danger. Americans already said no to amnesty under
> former President George W. Bush. Why would adding an
> unconstitutional national ID scheme with biometric data make it any
> more desirable? This is not the “change” people voted for, and it
> must be opposed.

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