National ID Card plan causes ACLU to cry “Orwellian”
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A plan by Senate Democratic leaders to reform the nation’s immigration laws ran into strong opposition from civil liberties defenders before lawmakers even unveiled it Thursday.
Democratic leaders have proposed requiring every worker in the nation to carry a national identification card with biometric information, such as a fingerprint, within the next six years, according to a draft of the measure.
The national ID program would be titled the Believe System, an acronym for Biometric Enrollment, Locally stored Information and Electronic Verification of Employment.
It would require all workers across the nation to carry a card with a digital encryption key that would have to match work authorization databases.
“The cardholder’s identity will be verified by matching the biometric identifier stored within the microprocessing chip on the card to the identifier provided by the cardholder that shall be read by the scanner used by the employer,” states the Democratic legislative proposal.
The American Civil Liberties Union, a civil liberties defender often aligned with the Democratic Party, wasted no time in blasting the plan.
“Creating a biometric national ID will not only be astronomically expensive, it will usher government into the very center of our lives. Every worker in America will need a government permission slip in order to work. And all of this will come with a new federal bureaucracy — one that combines the worst elements of the DMV and the TSA,” said Christopher Calabrese, ACLU legislative counsel.
“America’s broken immigration system needs real, workable reform, but it cannot come at the expense of privacy and individual freedoms,” Calabrese added.
The ACLU said “if the biometric national ID card provision of the draft bill becomes law, every worker in America would have to be fingerprinted.”
A source at one pro-immigration reform group described the proposal as “Orwellian.
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The card, the whole idea of the biometric on the card, is utter bullshit. I have enough freaking cards, thankyouverymuch.
Schumer needs to stop drinking the Koolaid.
Almost everyone over the age of 16 has a photo ID called a Driver’s License. The Cops can run it and check you out in minutes. Well the State Trooper from South Carolina, who wrongly accused me of speeding in his precious state, did.
I do see their point.
What needs reform is how we go about locating and dealing with those immigrants who really aren’t… an immigrant is someone who applies for citizenship. Illegals do not. Why? They should. Am I wrong?
What the Dem Senators are proposing must be denied. Geesus, talk about your New World Order!
Once again, the ACLU comes out against the acronym aficionado. Now who’s the hater.