…or when they do, they act as if it’s a good thing.
Section 3101 of S.744, “Unlawful Employment of Unauthorized Aliens, contains a mandatory “Identity Authentication Mechanism” that mandates a biometric ID database for almost every adult in America. The so-called “Photo Tool” database would be administered jointly by the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It would include not only personal information but also photographs from state-issued ID such as a driver’s license. Every adult who drives or travels, who opens a bank account or intersects with a government agency requires a state-issued photo ID. This means almost every adult in America will be on record with the most powerful domestic surveillance and police force in the world.
The ostensible purpose of the database is to prevent the illegal employment of undocumented immigrants. Employers would be legally obligated to “E-Verify” every person they hired; that is, they would be required to “match the photo on a covered identity document provided to the employer [by the job applicant] to a photo maintained by a US Citizenship and Immigration Services database.”
I’ve said it before. A license to work is a license to be. I can’t think of anything the government can do to us that’s more chilling. And the people who will cheer its inception the loudest are the ones also likely to prattle on about “freedom,” as if they even knew what it is.
I’ve been telling people for years that the whole immigration fiasco is just the lead up to forcing that REAL ID crap on us. Problem-Reaction-Solution.