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May 19th, 2006 at 8:54 pm by Susie
Because it’s important, and everyone needs to read it. Somegirl points out that the “real meat” of the immigration bill is yet another massive government database:
The EEVS [Employment Eligibility Verification System] would require - for the first time - all workers to obtain a federal agency’s permission to work, regardless of citizenship or immigration status. It would create two massive government databases containing the most sensitive personal information on every lawful resident. Every worker would be registered in the two systems with data files tracking every job they ever sought or held. The two systems combine that information with substantial amounts of personally identifiable information, all keyed to a person’s Social Security number.
All employers would be required to participate in a national employment eligibility verification program in an expansion of the faulty but voluntary “Basic Pilot†program. However, no proposals have been brought forth to provide for a secure system; making it likely that the EEVS system would be a ripe target for identity thieves.
I’ll post this again Monday, because we all need to call our elected representatives.
Almost all Democratic politicians support illegal immigration. Without that support this database wouldn’t be necessary and no one would support it. If they had to choose between this database and illegal immigration, which would they choose?