National ID moving forward on Immigration with RFID

**vector7** · June 26th, 2013, 23:34

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Ron Paul's Group Takes Aim at Marco Rubio over National ID

By: Kevin Derby | Posted: June 20, 2013 4:35 PM

A group affiliated with former Congressman Ron Paul took aim at U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., on Thursday.

The Campaign for Liberty attacked Rubio for voting against an amendment from U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to the immigration reform bill the senator from Florida is championing. Rand Paul’s amendment would have ensured the federal government does not launch a National ID card or create biometric databases on Americans.

“We cannot become a ‘papers please’ society,” said John Tate, the president of Campaign for Liberty, on Thursday. “The fact that Senator Rubio stood with Leader Reid to support a National ID system, complete with a database containing the picture and other biometric information of U.S. citizens should cause all Floridians to seriously question his conservative credentials.”

Rand Paul and Rubio are expected to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. While Tate might be urging Florida voters to question Rubio’s conservative credentials, the chairman of his group didn’t exactly impress in the Sunshine State though he did not seriously compete there either time out. During his two bids for the Republican presidential nomination, Ron Paul did not do well in Florida, taking 3 percent in 2008 and 7 percent in 2012.

**vector7** · June 26th, 2013, 23:39

Homeland Security awards new immigration ID contract even before passage of bill

Specimen National ID Green Card
Credits: Courtesy of HID Global

On June 25, the Department of Homeland Security's immigration division (USCIS), awarded a new ID and green card contract to HID Global, weeks before a decision will be made in Congress on passage of an immigration reform bill.

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), an agency of the US Department of Homeland Security, has selected HID Global as the prime contractor for the USCIS Permanent Resident Card – commonly known as the Green Card.

HID says: “The Green Card is one of the most secure national ID cards in the world with a digital security that has never been compromised.” - Security Document World

Lawful immigrant applicants already function under an established green card system, and the current debate in Congress is focused primarily on what to do with the estimated 11 to 20 million illegal immigrants residing in the United States under real or false identifications. Thus it appears plans for a completely new and secure system of identification and tracking coincide with the growing push to legalize illegal aliens already in the country, and signify the expectation of a bill's passage.

With revelations earlier this month of how massive the NSA surveillance system is in tracking and monitoring U.S. citizens, expectations for the new card may tie into the current capabilities of government monitoring. The new ID card will function with RFID chip technologies, and allow for instant recognition and location tracking.

As the Senate completes the first portion of their proposed immigration reform legislation, the outcome in Congress may be a foregone conclusion with Homeland Security already awarding new contracts to a technology corporation to facilitate the documenting and surveillance of potential new immigrants under a national ID system.

**American Patriot** · June 27th, 2013, 12:44

Bullshit.

**vector7** · July 1st, 2013, 16:32

Ron Paul: If You Like The Surveillance State, You’ll Love E-Verify

July 1, 2013

From massive NSA spying, to IRS targeting of the administration's political opponents, to collection and sharing of our health care information as part of Obamacare, it seems every day we learn of another assault on our privacy. Sadly, this week the Senate took another significant, if little-noticed, step toward creating an authoritarian surveillance state. Buried in the immigration bill is a national identification system called mandatory E-Verify.

The Senate did not spend much time discussing E-Verify, and what little discussion took place was mostly bipartisan praise for its effectiveness as a tool for preventing illegal immigrants from obtaining employment. It is a tragedy that mandatory E-Verify is not receiving more attention, as it will impact nearly every American’s privacy and liberty.

The mandatory E-Verify system requires Americans to carry a “tamper-proof” social security card. Before they can legally begin a job, American citizens will have to show the card to their prospective employer, who will then have to verify their identity and eligibility to hold a job in the US by running the information through the newly-created federal E-Verify database. The database will contain photographs taken from passport files and state driver's licenses. The law gives federal bureaucrats broad discretion in adding other “biometric” identifiers to the database. It also gives the bureaucracy broad authority to determine what features the “tamper proof” card should contain.

Regardless of one’s views on immigration, the idea that we should have to ask permission from the federal government before taking a job ought to be offensive to all Americans. Under this system, many Americans will be denied the opportunity for work. The E-Verify database will falsely identify thousands as "ineligible," forcing many to lose job opportunities while challenging government computer inaccuracies. E-Verify will also impose additional compliance costs on American businesses, at a time when they are struggling with Obamacare implementation and other regulations.

According to David Bier of Competitive Enterprise Institute, there is nothing stopping the use of E-Verify for purposes unrelated to work verification, and these expanded uses could be authorized by agency rule-making or executive order. So it is not inconceivable that, should this bill pass, the day may come when you are not be able to board an airplane or exercise your second amendment rights without being run through the E-Verify database. It is not outside the realm of possibility that the personal health care information that will soon be collected by the IRS and shared with other federal agencies as part of Obamacare will also be linked to the E-Verify system.

Those who dismiss these concerns as paranoid should consider that the same charges were leveled at those who warned that the PATRIOT Act could lead to the government collecting our phone records and spying on our Internet usage. Just as the PATRIOT Act was only supposed to be used against terrorists but is now used to bypass constitutional protections in matters having noting to do with terrorism or national security, the national ID/mandatory E-Verify database will not only be used to prevent illegal immigrants from gaining employment. Instead, it will eventually be used as another tool to monitor and control the American people.

The recent revelations of the extent of National Security Agency (NSA) spying on Americans, plus recent stories of IRS targeting Tea Party and similar groups for special scrutiny, demonstrates the dangers of trusting government with this type of power. Creation of a federal database with photos and possibly other “biometric” information about American citizens is a great leap forward for the surveillance state. All Americans who still care about limited government and individual liberty should strongly oppose E-Verify.