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National ID Card Is Now Federal Law
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Cyndee Parker
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n September of 1996, President Clinton signed into law, the Illegal
Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. Buried at
approximately page 650 of the new national Defense Bill, also known as
Public Law 104-208, Part B, Title IV, the American public was given a
national ID card. With no fanfare, no publicity and no scrutiny, the
bill easily avoided the watchful eyes of even its most aggressive
opponents.
The Coalition to Repeal the Fingerprints Law, a Georgia grassroots
movement trying to rid the state of the new requirement to give digital
fingerprints in order to obtain a state ID or driver's license, recently
discovered the national ID tie. The group found that the national law
not only mandates a national ID card, but found how it is to be used.
In Section 401-403, pilot programs have been initiated by the U.S.
Attorney General, one of which is the “Machine Readable Document Pilot
Program.” In this particular program, employers would have to “procure”
a document reader linked to the federal government's Social Security
Administration in order to have the potential employee swipe their new
driver's license/national ID card through the reader. Then, it would be
up to the federal government to either approve or disapprove the
applicant for employment.
Section 326 and 327 provide $5,000,000 per year grants to each state
participating in any of the three pilot programs. The money has been
allocated through the Criminal Alien Tracking Center and is called the
Criminal Alien Identification System. The “automated identification
system,” which is to be used by “Federal, State, and local law
enforcement” and will “provide for recording of fingerprints of aliens
previously arrested and removed.” The grants run from “fiscal years 1997
through 2001.”
Additionally, Section 656 of the new law states that “after October 1,
2000, Federal agencies may only accept as proof of identity driver's
licenses that conform to standards developed by the Secretary of the
Treasury,” after consultation with state motor vehicle officials and the
American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators. The AAMVA sees
digital fingerprinting as the best way to go in driver's license
identifiers.
Fearing that all Americans were about to be digitally tattooed under the
government's paranoiac guise of catching everything from aliens to dead
beat dads, Congressman Dick Armey (R-TX) was one of the first to voice
his opinion. Armey called the move, “an abomination and wholly at odds
with the American tradition of individual freedom.” Senator Spencer
Abraham (R-MI) joined Armey in signing a letter denouncing the computer
registry and tracking system and Jack Kemp announced in the New York
Times that this was, “an anti-privacy, anti-business and anti-American
approach” and that “it was no way to run immigration policy.” Of course,
all this was said before the bills were snuck through in the last
defense bill. There is a possibility at this time, they don't even know
the proposed legislation became law.
For the first time in American history and reminiscent of Communist
countries, our government would have the ability to grant approval
before a private company enters into private employment contracts with
private citizens. Because of the nature of the employment system alone,
personal information would be accessible to local agencies and anyone
who even claims to be an employer. The government would have
comprehensive files of all American citizen's names, dates of birth,
place of birth, mother's maiden names, Social Security numbers, gender,
race, driving records, child support payments, divorce status, hair
color, eye color, height, weight, and anything else they may dream up in
the future.
On May 10, 1995, a hearing was held by the Senate Subcommittee on
Immigration entitled, “Verification of Applicant Identity for the
Purposes of Employment and Public Assistance.” The hearing was chaired
by Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY) and attended by Senators Ted Kennedy
(D-MA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and John Kyl (R-AZ). Robert Razor of
the Secret Service Financial Crimes Division gave the Subcommittee an
explanation of the emerging biometric technological role in personal
identification. He said, “The use of biometrics is the means by which an
individual may be conclusively identified. There are two types of
biometric identifiers: physical and behavioral characteristics.
Physiological biometrics include facial features, hand geometry, retinal
and iris patterns, DNA, and fingerprints. Behavioral characteristics
include voice characteristics and signature analysis.”
Now the people of America not only must have digital tattoos on their
driver's licenses, we must also give information to the government when
boarding commercial aircraft, called personality profiles, along with a
government ID card. Of course, this guise is in order to catch some
would-be terrorist. Dianne Feinstein, author of the national ID law,
explained in a Capitol Hill magazine that it was her intention to see
Congress immediately implement a national identity system where every
American is required to carry a card with a “magnetic strip on it which
the bearer's unique voice, retina pattern, or fingerprint is digitally
encoded.” She also stated that “fifteen years ago, they would have torn
the building down.” We probably would have if we had known about it. (I
hope she doesn't mind that Georgia left out the magnetic strip and
replaced it with two dimensional bar-coding.)
During closing remarks of the May 10 Subcommittee meeting, Senator Alan
Simpson stated, “There is much to do here, but I was just saying to Ted
[Kennedy] before he left, a hearing like this fifteen years ago, would
have torn the building down. And here we are today, just a bunch of us,
kind of sitting around and no media, no nothing. This is fine with me. I
get tired of them on this issue.”
Based on other federal mandates, the Associated Press reported in the
Wichita Eagle on March 6, 1997 that the “Federal government mandates a
registry of new employees: State lawmakers balk at bill required by
Congress to ease child support collection. A bill designed to increase
state collection of child support payments was described as a ‘Big
Brother’ move and drew little support from members of the Senate
Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. But the federal government says the
legislature must pass it or the state could lose as much as $29 million
in federal funds.”
The bill referred to requires the state to set up a “new hires
directory” that would require all employers to report to the state
information about every newly hired employee. The directory would be
made available to the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
for child support collections. In the article, they reported that “the
date in Kansas and other states, although confidential, would be
available to a national directory of new hires.” They further reported
that all people would be listed, regardless of age and even those that
have no child support obligation.
The Senate Judiciary Committee in Kansas was quick to offer comments
condemning the federal mandate. Senator Mike Harris from Wichita, the
committee chairman said, “This is the most potentially significant,
far-reaching piece of legislation that has come through this committee.”
The legislators from both parties referred to “Big Brother” and George
Orwell's novel, “1984.” Kansas State Senator Paul Feleciano of Wichita
said, “If ever we give witness to Big Brother watching over us, this is
the beginning of it.” Sen. Ed Pugh of Wamego had sharper words for the
bill. He said, “I don't see how it can be drafted by someone in a free
society. It's a perfect example of the ends justifying the means.” These
Kansas lawmakers are not referring to the Immigration Act, but to
another new federal law, the Welfare Reform Act. If Kansas refuses to
have a state bill in place later this year, they will loose as much as
$29 million in federal funds for child support collection. Senator Pugh
said it is a “wholesale assault on Constitutional rights.”
The new driver's license requirement mandating fingerprints for Georgia
driver's and those wanting ID cards passed the state legislature with
virtually no public or media attention in April of 1996. The first known
announcement was on the local Atlanta news announcing an October, 1996
date to begin fingerprinting. (Cyndee Parker, now a coordinator for the
Coalition to Repeal the Fingerprint Law in Georgia began the campaign to
repeal the egregious law.)
Many Georgia lawmakers joined in on the repeal efforts. Representatives
Mitchell Kaye, Brian Joyce, Vernon Jones and Senator Pam Glanton were
the first to help lead the repeal efforts in the General Assembly of
Georgia. Eight bills were drawn by the House and one by the Senate.
Mitchell Kaye refers to the law as, “tracking us like a can of dog
food.”
Due to the Governor's and House Speaker's manipulations, all eight House
bills were held hostage by the House Motor Vehicle's Committee and were
never voted on. The Senate overwhelmingly passed a Senate Bill, only to
find it placed as hostage, along with the other bills in Motor Vehicles.
On the last night of the Georgia Session, Senator Glanton amended
another driver's license related bill and it also was never voted on by
the House due to the same manipulations, illegal rule changes and an
incredible amount of confusion on the House Floor. Governor Miller
stated numerous times during the year that he would veto any repeal
effort. House Speaker Tom Murphy was happy to see that the Governor did
not have to get out his veto pen.
Georgia just slipped theirs through unnoticed by lawmakers and the
public, the same way the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant
Responsibility Act was. The group also had to notify their United States
Congressional Representatives and Senators, as they were unaware of the
facts as well. Both State and Federal Representatives and Senators had
absolutely no knowledge they had passed the new laws until the Coalition
brought it to their attention.
•The Coalition to Repeal the Fingerprints Law can be reached at
404-250-8105 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
•or visit their web site at:
www.mcwebs.com/repeal/
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