Lawmakers Eyeing National ID Card

[The Straight Story]

Lawmakers Eyeing National ID Card


Lawmakers are proposing a national identification card — what they’re calling “high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security cards” — that would be required for all employees in the United States.

The proposal by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) and Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina) comes as the states are grappling to produce another national identification card at the behest of the Department of Homeland Security. Virtually none of the states are in compliance with this Real ID program — adopted in 2005 — requiring state motor vehicle bureaus to obtain and internally scan and store personal information like Social Security cards and birth certificates for a national database.

Homeland Security officials pointed to the Sept. 11 hijackers’ ability to get driver’s licenses in Virginia using false information as justification for the proposed $24 billion Real ID program. Schumer and Graham point to illegal immigration as cause for their plan.

“We would require all U.S. citizens and legal immigrants who want jobs to obtain a high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security card. Each card’s unique biometric identifier would be stored only on the card; no government database would house everyone’s information,” they said. “The cards would not contain any private information, medical information or tracking devices. The card would be a high-tech version of the Social Security card that citizens already have.”

Read More http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/two-id-cards/#ixzz0j7fj60fv

[zipplewrath]

1. yeah, right

Go look at the promises made about SS numbers when the original legislation was passed.

[FLAprogressive]

2. Two people that I would never trust -- Schumer and Graham. I don't like it.

[rcrush]

3. So when does the cheerleading start?

I'm gonna go vomit.

[FLAprogressive]

4. by the same people who think that Chuck "Wall Street's Best Friend" Schumer is a progressive.

[lonestarnot]

6. Good ol chuckie cheese.

[rcrush]

7. Thats probably a lot of people

Around here at least. People see a D next to the name and will support whatever.

[FLAprogressive]

8. Especially since he's a social liberal....

...it makes them think he's not corporate.

[pampango]

5. Sounds like a bad idea. Don't know why they can't refine the E-verify system for work authorization

which already works very well, though not perfectly. It may give illegal employers a little more wiggle room to argue that they didn't know someone was an illegal immigrant (there are still flaws in E-verify), but it avoids the problems that go with a national ID.

[The Wielding Truth]

10. Yep. That's sounds reasonable.

[joeybee12]

9. Better idea...read CIA warning memos instead of going on vacation...n/t

[treestar]

11. Well we gotta stop them illegals from working!

It's such a serious matter of national security, you know.

I thought 911 was no longer being used to prop stuff like this. Guess I was wrong.

The hijackers could still get on a plane today - the ones who were still legally here and who could therefore have gotten drivers' licenses.

[FarCenter]

12. Why a new card? What is wrong with the passport?

Just require everyone to get passports.

[Echo In Light]

13. Weren't these supposed to be implemented by 08, but met too much resistance?

... if I recall?

[Better Believe It]

14. A national I.D. card. Will we need it to cross state lines, how about roadblock checks ....

to find terriorists and assorted radicals?

Sorry.

I don't trust Big Brother.

Has President Obama weighed in on this yet?

[FLAprogressive]

15. I believe he opposed it in the senate but as we all know his past actions and statements mean little

[Echo In Light]

16. Indeed...NEVER trust Big Bro

Those at work within the apparatus haven't our best interests in mind at all. At. All.

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. Your paperz, pleeze! nt