The National Border Patrol Council is a labor union composed of immigration police. Their job is hard, certainly—but no harder than police who work in high-crime precincts around the U.S. Unlike those police—who tend to keep their politics to themselves— this group is active politically.
Here is one proposal on their legislative website that would affect you and me:
Enhance the Social Security card with biometric information (picture, fingerprint, etc.) to identify the cardholder and assist employers with verifying the identity of the applicant. Similar to a state drivers license or credit card, the card should have a magnetic strip on the back with information about the card holder. The magnetic strip will enable employers to swipe the card through a card reader, which would be connected to a computer database run by the Social Security Administration. The Social Security card would be issued to U.S. citizens and immigrants who have been approved to work in the United States.
Photos are common on government IDs—fingerprints are not. And what does “etc” mean for biometric data? Iris scan? Cheek swab (this provides unique DNA markers)?
And what happens when Wikileaks, Gucifer 2, or Wannacry ransom gets a hold of your biometric data, seeking either ransom or simply sells it to a terror outfit or drug gang?
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