SAY 'NO' TO DACA AMNESTY AND 'NO' TO BIO-METRIC NATIONAL ID

Submitted by: P McMillan

No to DACA Amnesty and E-Verify Biometric National ID

This is unbelievable! Under the supposedly "conservative" pretense of boosting "border security" and limiting illegal immigration, Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) has introduced H.R. 4760, the Securing America's Future Act of 2018, which would force all Americans to have mandatory national biometric ID cards and in exchange for this bill would give the Democrats and millions of illegal immigrants amnesty by including DACA. In a recent January 22, 2018 articlepublished by The New American online, Alex Newman reports about the proposal:

Republican leaders in Congress are once again plotting with Democrats to stab the American people and the U.S. Constitution in the back, on multiple key issues. Under the guise of getting "something" in exchange for providing amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants (and future Democrat voters) in Obama's illegal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the establishment wing of the GOP is pushing a radical longtime goal of the bipartisan Deep State: mandatory national biometric ID cards for all Americans.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program began in 2012 as a series of unconstitutional executive actions by President Barack Obama. The program extends protections from deportation for roughly 741,546 young immigrants who illegally entered the United States as children with their parents. The program was originally meant to expire in March of 2018, but President Trump allowed for a six-month delay in order to give Congress ample time to settle the issue. Republicans typically oppose DACA, but Democrats want to keep it. As for what are the national biometric ID cards, which congressional Republicans want so much that they are willing to pass DACA in exchange, Alex Newman writes:

The Orwellian national ID scheme, known as "E-Verify," is ostensibly aimed at making it harder for illegal immigrants to find work in the United States. Basically, as part of the program, which would become mandatory under the bill, every employer would be forced to buy a scanner and use it to check the legal work status of potential employees. On top of that, every worker would be forced to have a biometric ID issued by the federal government in order to be able to legally work. Without this national ID, employers would not legally be able to hire somebody.

It is already illegal for employers to hire illegal immigrants. Passing new laws, like E-Verify, will not change anything. As Newman explains, "in reality, illegal immigrants are typically paid under the table anyway - many of them simply work as day laborers and get paid in cash at the end of the day. In light of that fact, the unconstitutional plot to mandate national ID will do little to prevent unscrupulous employers from continuing to hire illegal immigrants, off the books."

So just as how gun-control laws fail to prevent criminals from using guns to commit crimes, likewise E-Verify will not stop law-breaking companies and employers from hiring illegal immigrants. "What the scheme will do," according to Newman, "is [to] force all law-abiding Americans to carry an unconstitutional national ID with all their information on it, including sensitive biometric data, just to be allowed to work. It will also give the feds a key new tool to monitor and control people."

Also sounding the alarm - As Newman points out - is former Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, who in an e-mail to supporters and members of the non-profit Campaign for Liberty (C4L), warns:

That's right -- the statists want to control you.
Just think about it. . . Gun ownership. Employment history. Family and friends. Purchasing habits. Health records. Travel. Religious beliefs. Past political contributions [...], just imagine all these records and more on EVERY American citizen stored in a massive national database right at a federal government bureaucrat's finger tips.

Under this E-Verify "statists' National ID scheme," as Paul puts it, "you'd be forced to carry around your National ID card, tied to this massive database, chockfull of biometric identifiers like fingerprints and retina scans." And to see just how far-reaching this program would be, Paul states that those who don't have the onerous biometric ID "won't be able to legally hold a job -- or likely even open a bank account or even board a plane!"

Despite what establishment congressional Republicans, like Congressman Goodlatte, might say to entice conservatives into supporting the bill (such as funding for the construction of a wall on U.S.-Mexico border), H.R. 4760 is altogether a bad deal for America. As Newman reports, the bill would "increase the number of foreign workers brought in by 45 percent, meaning 55,000 additional immigrants each year on top of those already coming in" and "also expands the H-2C program, allowing about a million temporary workers to come into the United States and compete with Americans in the food and agriculture sectors." Goodlatte's bill not only infringes on American's God-given rights and individual liberties, but by including DACA it further makes it inconsistent with the anti-globalist "America First" campaign promises of President Donald Trump to "Make America Great Again."

Please phone your representative (202-225-3121) and senators (202-224-3121) and ask them to OPPOSE both the E-Verify biometric national ID and DACA amnesty by VOTING AGAINST H.R. 4760, the Securing America's Future Act of 2018.

Then, please email your representative and senators with the same message.

Thanks.

Your Friends at The John Birch Society