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...card in and of itself is harmless. It's just a card. It would need to be supported by a massive centralized database, and that, rather than a piece of plastic, is what could be abused. But strict laws could help prevent that, just as the 4th Amendment protects us against illegal searches and seizures...
...Ellison's proposal makes the cards voluntary for U.S. citizens but mandatory for foreign visitors, whether they're students on visas, or non-citizens living and working in America who hold "green cards." What this would mean for the eight million or so illegal immigrants in the U.S. is anybody's guess. Any American without a card could board a plane, for example, but only after undergoing a more rigorous examination...
...Rather than allowing the government to restrict your freedom, the cards might in fact alleviate a different kind of constitutional problem, ethnic profiling. Had the four Arabic-looking men who were hustled off of commercial jet a couple of weeks ago produced their spanking new national ID card, the airline might have felt a little more sheepish about booting them...
...Americans support the idea of a national ID card. A Pew poll from September shows that 70% of Americans like the idea, while 60% of those questioned in TIME/CNN poll from last week gave the it a thumbs...
...card would not alleviate what many people think of as a much worse problem, international visas. Visa applicants are not checked with the CIA or the FBI. We have no central global counterintelligence database. There is virtually no coordination among the INS, the FBI, the State Department, and the Customs service. This goes for border checking as well. At the moment, an estimated 500,000 people are in the U.S. with expired visas and we have no way of checking who they...