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"Right to work" doesn't mean what you think when the government is involved

Buried deep in the proposed immigration reform bill is language designed not just to create national identity cards, but also to require everyone in America to have the government's permission to work.

From CNN: 

Buried in the comprehensive immigration reform legislation before the Senate are obscure provisions that impose on Americans expansive national identification systems, tied to electronic verification schemes. Under the guise of "reform," these trample fundamental rights and freedoms.
Requirements in Senate Bill 744 for mandatory worker IDs and electronic verification remove the right of citizens to take employment and "give" it back as a privilege only when proper proof is presented and the government agrees. Such systems are inimical to a free society and are costly to the economy and treasury.
Any citizen wanting to take a job would face the regulation that his or her digitized high-resolution passport or driver's license photo be collected and stored centrally in a Department of Homeland Security Citizenship and Immigration Services database.
The pictures in the national database would then need to be matched against the job applicant's government-issued "enhanced" ID card, using a Homeland Security-mandated facial-recognition "photo tool." Only when those systems worked perfectly could the new hire take the job.
One of the principles of legislating should always be, "Does this new law do more harm than good?"

OK, I'm fully ready to deal with the issue of several million illegal immigrants in order to avoid this.

Time to ask:  where does Delaware's congressional delegation stand on this?

Unfortunately, even before I phrase the question, you and I both already know the answer.

Comments

tom said…
in his latest email fundraising letter, Tmo Carper pretends that ho wants to hear from you on the immigration bill.

let's give him an earful (302-573-6291) and a full mailbox.

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