ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan
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. Ref. Source 3
Stranger than fiction?
Install microchips in illegal immigrants, GOP candidate says:
Instead of building a border fence to help stem illegal immigration, the you.S. Government should implant microchips into immigrants before deportation, much like what is done with pets, Pat Bertroche, an Urbandale physician and one of seven Republicans running in the 3rd District Congressional primary, said Monday. Ref. Source 3
Considering the fact that they want adults to microchip their kids so they can be tracked if they become lost is not far from installing microchips in illegal immigrants. I think in either case we are not promoting safety.
New FBI System To Use Hands, Faces, Irises To ID Suspects:
During the next several years, new biometric capabilities will be added to make identification possible through facial recognition technology, iris patterns, and digital photographs of scars, tattoos and other physical markings. Ref. Source 5
Immigration Reform Could Lead To Biometric ID Cards:
Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Thursday that their Senate framework for immigration reform, recently endorsed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), could require biometric information to check employment status. Ref. Source 8