</font><font color="blue" class="small">( you seem to think that illegal citizens have nothing to do with the National ID card system, and that people inevetibly bring it up for reasons that you don't undertand.
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getut,
Please don't make the mistake about me not understanding illegal aliens. I live in south TEXAS, 70 miles up the Rio Grande, and 13 miles north of Mexico. The McAllen Sector has the largest Border Patrol unit there is. A drive through town and you'll see a massive amount of Mexican Nationals here - shopping, vacationing, etc. In fact, our local economy depends on it. We have half a dozen bridges here in Hidalgo County and 24 hours a day these typically have at least a 30 minute wait to get across (entering or leaving the US). Most are here with work visas (you may have heard the term "green card" now also called a "laser visa"). They will not need any more ID to come and go as they please. Yet, if I make a trip to Mexico (or Canada), even for an afternoon of shopping or for an evening meal, I need a passport to re-enter the US. Perhaps you've heard of our senior citizens crossing the border for cheap prescriptions (this is a HUGE business here, one to two blocks inside Mexico, you can find complete blocks of nothing but drug stores and dentists and doctors offices. These cater to the American citizen that, for example, have no insurance.) Are we really safer to harass Granpa trying to return home after getting his prescriptions filled?
What boneheaded idiot up in DC convinced everyone to get on the band wagon to pass this legislation? Where's the common sense? <font color="red">Fingerprints</font> are unique and it costs nothing (and will not create any revenue) to scan your hand. And it cannot be lost or duplicated easily.
This whole thing reeeks of bad law. I'm sorry that so many people only see the illegal citizen aspect of this. That is a relatively small part of this thing.
Do you realize that human nature is to dislike something? We had communism for many years to dislike, and then The Wall fell. Oh-oh, no enemy. Wait, lets rack up the heat on the druggies and make their life h#11. That made us feel better to do something about our fellow man whom we can have control over, and the drug war created jobs and revenue. Then at some DEA meeting, a Mr. Whipple type raised his hand for the floor, let's get people to take mandatory drug tests. Yes, a new enemy, and this will make money! Then there were the homosexuals, well they made us tolerate them by suing everyone who made an example of. So, oops, we're out of an enemy. Then, 9-11, a made to order a new enemy. And it's creating revenue!
Is the fog clearing? See the picture? It has little about illegal aliens. It's about revenue and power.
This is the greatest country, but things that are going on now will be viewed as a low point in American history in the future.
Off my soapbox.
getut, there I indulged you for one last post.
