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To: Sully- who wrote (79385)	4/30/2010 1:49:21 PM
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Democrats’ immigration plan calls for national ID card with biometric info By: Mark Hemingway Commentary Staff Writer 04/30/10 12:14 PM EDT So let’s see, verification of immigration status following a “lawful stop, detention or arrest” is a bridge too far — but this plan doesn’t raise any civil rights hackles among Democrats?: <<< A plan by Senate Democratic leaders to reform the nation’s immigration laws ran into strong opposition from civil liberties defenders before lawmakers even unveiled it Thursday. Democratic leaders have proposed requiring every worker in the nation to carry a national identification card with biometric information, such as a fingerprint, within the next six years, according to a draft of the measure. The proposal is one of the biggest differences between the newest immigration reform proposal and legislation crafted by late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). The national ID program would be titled the Believe System, an acronym for Biometric Enrollment, Locally stored Information and Electronic Verification of Employment. >>> Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com