you are lumping legal and illegal aliens into the same bucket. legal aliens have extensive protection and this will not be a legal slam dunk.
WLD, sorry, you are right. I stated that wrong. I should have said that aliens have no legal right to COME here, nor do they have any CONSTITUTIONAL right to stay.
U.S. citizens, on the other hand, have Constitutional rights both to be here as well as to return whenever we go somewhere else.
Thus, making fingerprinting a condition of ENTRY for aliens is much easier than it is to force citizens to submit to it.
once you start drawing the distinctions between legal/illegal/alien/resident/citizen you run into the obvious problem that you cannot tell who is in what bucket unless you also put citizens in some kind of bucket.
As to people all ready in the country, that's a reasonable argument. But, again, entry is a different matter, because everyone is required to show a passport to enter, whether thay be a citizen or not, so it would be quite easy to separate the citizens from the non-citizens without placing any additional burden on the citizens.
some kind of national id/fingerprinting/dna-ing is coming down the pike, count on it.
Quite possible, but, IMHO, not until after the next 9-11 level (or worse) event. |
