I really do not see the problems here - maybe cost, which is not addressed in the concerns?
WASHINGTON - Congress is moving to replace the paper Social Security cards issued to 280 million Americans with plastic, harder-to-counterfeit versions to try to curtail identity theft and the use of Social Security cards and numbers by some undocumented immigrants to obtain jobs.I have decided to pick on a couple of concerns:
Critics fear the cards could become de facto national IDs and eventually play the role that identity papers have played over history in repressive societies. Some worry that the proposal could mean trouble for immigrant workers and even criminal fines for employers.
If the Illegal Immigration Enforcement and Social Security Protection Act of 2005 became law, every person seeking a job in the United States - citizen and undocumented immigrant alike - would have to present the card to his or her prospective employer.
- Critics fear the cards could become de facto national IDs - Like it has not already become such a thing -- really, for all us honest citizens can you go to the doctor, dentist, etc. and not be asked you for your SSN? Heaven forbid you are a military member, anyone that has every served in the last 30 years has the SSN memorized, why, because it is the only number they knows us by. Come on the SSN is already a National ID not matter what was promised when SS started or the delusions the critics are spewing.
- Some worry that the proposal could mean trouble for immigrant workers and even criminal fines for employers -- well shucks, you mean that all employed might actually have to be legal, oh no God forbid such a thing - what a lame excuse.
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