Amnesty and my membership in the Republican party

[scaeagles]

Morrigoon and Alex have stated my major reasons against and why I am not so against the national ID card.

I hate the concept, but in essence we already do have one. In all reality it is next to impossible to do anything without your social security number, and that, as we know, isn't very secure.

I am against big government. However, since one of the only Constitutionally mandated functions of the feds is to protect and control our borders (and therefore control the flow of people into it), it might be a valid function as a tool to get people out that don't belong.

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I am against big government. However, since one of the only Constitutionally mandated functions of the feds is to protect and control our borders (and therefore control the flow of people into it), it might be a valid function as a tool to get people out that don't belong.

But do you understand what enforcing that would entail? What it already entails? Everything we do to "get them" is going to "get" us. It's like airport security - in order to TRY to filter out less than a dozen bad guys, millions of Americans have to go through and enormous amount of hassle, annoyance, and inconvenience, which, in turn, affects how free we really are.