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Brad
WHG
Well as I expected there is much ado about the proposed national ID card as part of the Schumer/Graham amnesty. Now, I like most Americans do not like the Feds/ state or any other agency or business having info on me or for that info to become available to other interests. But as we examine today’s society, how much privacy do we really enjoy? Our financial information is collected and reported to at least 3 big clearing houses. We have to submit records to have a child, to drive, to enroll our children into school,to get a visa or passport and for most of us to apply for a job. If we need government social service help, we are finger printed, our income and household members names and SS numbers are required. Proof of residence is required to get a mailbox at the USPS. If you purchase real estate, life insurance or use a medical facility you information becomes part of a data base.
The idea of a national ID card is repulsive. But I believe we are already there. It is call a SS card. As for personal information, a quick search with Google shows that there are numerous ways for people to obtain information about you legally. Information is in the public record and various other collection data bases.
So what about the idea of a national ID card? I don’t believe a new card is necessary. What I believe is that SS cards should be made at least as secure as credit cards or driver’s licenses. Of course those opposing anything that would be effective against identity thief, fraud or illegal workers will say the cards could be forged. Well that is indeed possible, but it doesn’t stop credit card companies from doing billions of dollars of business using semi secure cards. It doesn’t stop states from licensing people to drive in their state, or allowing those licenses to be used for identification.
SS cards should be made more secure. A picture and thumb print along with a magnetic strip with encrypted number would go along way to prevent fraud, identity theft and illegals in the work place. If the government is not going to make the cards secure and protect identities, then those cards/SS numbers should not be used as an identifier for the IRS, credit and other functions or services.
On the use of a card as a provision of CIR, it is a scam. A national ID card would be challenged by various groups on privacy and right to work statutes. The security provision that the cards would provide would be watered down or nullified by lawsuits. The end result would be an amnesty without any enforcement. If SS cards were enhanced with better security, amnesty or CIR would not be needed. Such a card would be a big deterrent and a serious boost to the process of attrition. Without fraudulent identification, illegal aliens would self deport.
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Joshua Rhett Miller
The Fox News
A cell phone application that will help illegal immigrants find water and key landmarks as they cross into the United States is an inappropriate use of taxpayer funds and an irresponsible use of technology, critics say.
The Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT), the brainchild of three faculty members at the University of California-San Diego and a colleague at the University of Michigan, is a software application that can be installed into a GPS-enabled cell phone. In addition to helping immigrants locate water and landmarks, it also could alert them to Border Patrol checkpoints. And to make the trek a little less arduous, it also plays recorded poetry.
‘I don’t think it’s an appropriate use of technology,’ U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., told FoxNews.com. ‘If other governments did this and tried to tell people ways to sneak into the U.S., I’m sure the Department of Defense would take issue with that. But because American universities are doing it, there’s not a whole lot of outcry about it.’ Continue reading Critics Blast Transborder Immigrant Tool as ‘Irresponsible’ Use of Technology
Jerome R. Corsi
WorldNetDaily
A new battle over illegal immigration is rapidly shaping up in the nation’s capital.
Supporters of comprehensive immigration reform are demanding immediate legislative action from the Obama administration with a planned mass demonstration in Washington scheduled for March 21, billed as “March for America: Change Takes Courage.”
Meanwhile, Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., have been meeting with the White House to reintroduce immigration legislation. The bipartisan effort is reminiscent of twice-failed attempts by Sens. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and John McCain, R-Ariz., during the administration of President George W. Bush.
Yet, Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, does not expect any comprehensive immigration reform legislation to be pushed by the Obama administration in Congress this year.
“There is very little appetite in Congress to deal with immigration reform this year largely, because President Obama does not truly care about pushing comprehensive immigration,” Krikorian told WND. Continue reading Don’t look now! Amnesty is back
Hannah Schwab
THE EASTERN ECHO
Immigrant’s rights groups are mad at President Obama and his fellow Democrats. They’re irritated the president is filling his daily schedule with silly things like health care, the economy and the War on Terror. What he should be focusing on is fast-tracking legislation to legalize the undocumented immigrants already inside the borders. Are they serious?
A recent Washington Post article quoted immigrant advocates such as Brent Wilkes of the League of United Latin American Citizens, who “feel betrayed” by the Obama Administration for not delivering new immigration legislation. Continue reading Illegal immigrants angry at lack of influence in D.C.
Frosty Wooldridge
Before It’s News
Your U.S. Congress participates in and supports one of THE most fraudulent taxpayer abuse schemes ever concocted within the Federal Government. It’s time the administration put its foot down rather than allow millions of unlawful immigrants to step onto American soil—while soaking billions out of the U.S. Treasury.
Since the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) became part of the income tax code in 1975, it has quietly become the largest cash transfer program in the United States. At a cost of more than $44 billion per year, EITC spending dwarfs that of the traditional welfare program—Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)—and food stamps combined. More than 23 million households currently receive the credit.
Edwin Rubenstein exposed one of the most dramatic tax frauds ever on the American taxpayer: “Defrauding the American taxpayer”, Volume 19, Number 3, spring 2009, www.thesocialcontract.com , “The Earned Income Tax Credit and Illegal Immigration – A Study in Fraud, Abuse, and Liberal Activism.”
“From 1985 to 2006, EITC payments grew from $2.1 billion to $44.4 billion, or by an eye-popping 2,014 percent,” Rubenstein said. “Total federal income tax revenues rose by 217 percent over that same period. Similarly, the number of returns claiming the EITC rose from 6.4 million to 23 million—an increase of 255 percent—over a period when the total number of federal income tax returns increased by 36 percent.
“More than one in four immigrant households received the EITC in 2000—nearly twice the 13.2 percent rate of households headed by Native Americans. And because immigrant households are larger via higher fertility, their EITC payments are larger than those received by native households.
“Bottom line: Immigrants accounted for about 13 percent of the U.S. population in 2008 but receive an estimated 26 percent of EITC benefits—about $12 billion.” Continue reading Fraud & abuse: earned income tax credit by unlawful immigrants
David Sherfinski
Washington Examiner
Prince William County has turned over more than 2,000 suspected illegal immigrants to the federal government since July 2007, according to the county jail superintendent.
The county issued 2,352 detainers and released 2,091 inmates to Immigration and Customs Enforcement from July 2007 through January 2010. Continue reading Pr. William turned over more than 2,000 suspected illegal immigrants to feds
Eric Zimmermann
The Hill
President Obama reached a new low of 46% approval in today’s Gallup poll.
Statistically, the result isn’t dramatically different from Obama’s rating over the last several months. But it nevertheless demonstrates that the healthcare debate has taken a toll on Obama’s approval numbers.
Mark Anderson
American Free Press
Karen Quinn-Tostado of Oregon says she is just an everyday lady, but she is playing a significant role in an uncommon effort to get the American people to “face their oppressors,” as she put it. Ms. Quinn-Tostado is calling on every willing American to detach from their routine and engage in a national strike from the increasingly oppressive big business-big government matrix that has snared Americans in unpayable debt, endless toil, demolished rights and broken dreams with no apparent solution.
In cities like Detroit and Flint, Mich., entire neighborhoods of crumbling houses are vacant, and old factory sites there and elsewhere lay in ruins. Older parents are living with their adult kids (or vice versa). Entire factories have been transplanted to other countries, or totally closed.
There is an extreme lack of consumer purchasing power in this economy. Many citizens believe this cannot go on much longer.
Thus, from April 15 to April 18, Ms. Quinn-Tostado is calling for a national strike that includes these ideas: Do not send your children to school on schooldays; do not eat at chain restaurants (go to family-owned eateries or eat at home); do not buy imported goods of any kind; pull your money out of the big banks and choose a small community bank or no bank; and, among other things, decide as an individual whether paying the federal income tax or any other tax possibly deemed unjust is the right thing do to. Continue reading Grassroots Activists Call for ‘National Strike’ by Americans Set for April 15-18
Patrick J. Buchanan
Greece this past weekend saw the worst rioting since the debt crisis began. After Athens had announced new tax hikes and budget cuts to reduce a deficit of 13 percent of gross domestic product, mobs drove guards from Greece’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and attacked police.
In our own country, students, teachers and administrators at UC-Berkeley held a “Strike and Day of Action to Defend Education” to demand more money from taxpayers—for themselves.
How badly are they suffering?
According to Peter Robinson of Hoover Institution, California spends $13,000 per student in the state system, compared to $6,000 in New York.
Yet riots in Greece and demonstrators in California do portend a time of troubles. For the budget cuts and tax hikes needed to keep the welfare states of Europe operating as populations age and fewer children are born will be staggering and endless.
And, in the U.S., California is where we all are headed. Continue reading Who Should Pay the Piper?
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