Graham and Schumer Propose All American Workers Carry Biometric ID Card

The onslaught on our liberty continues. Lindsey Graham is a disgrace. He’s worse than Obama and Schumer, because he pretends to be a Republican.

Judge Andrew Napolitano and Lew Rockwell talked about the proposed national ID card. Again, it’s all about control over us. I urge you to watch and listen to the whole thing. They also touched on the Census and the intrusive questions the government wants us to answer.

The Wall Street Journal reported that they’re doing it to crack down on illegal immigration.

Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker.

The ID card plan is one of several steps advocates of an immigration overhaul are taking to address concerns that have defeated similar bills in the past.

The uphill effort to pass a bill is being led by Sens. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), who plan to meet with President Barack Obama as soon as this week to update him on their work. An administration official said the White House had no position on the biometric card.

“It’s the nub of solving the immigration dilemma politically speaking,” Mr. Schumer said in an interview. The card, he said, would directly answer concerns that after legislation is signed, another wave of illegal immigrants would arrive. “If you say they can’t get a job when they come here, you’ll stop it.”

Never let a crisis go to waste.

Big Government’s Capitol Confidential weighed in.

Adding the national ID cared idea to the mix will cause both the right and the left to band together against this provision forcing all Americans to carry an identification card containing fingerprints and other biometric information.  To say this is an invasion of privacy is an understatement.  There is no provision in the Constitution that grants the federal government the power nor the right to force Americans to be fingerprinted and to carry an identification card against their will.  This is not a new idea.

Read the whole thing. This is a horrible idea. It’s tyranny and all freedom loving Americans should stand in opposition to this blatant assault on our rights.