JOURNAL: Is Arizona's Immigration law a convenient opportunity?

Dems spark alarm with call for national ID card [Source: The Hill, April 30, 2010]

There is no question that the recently passed Immigration Bill (SB1070) by Arizona Legislators has caused quite an uproar not only in Arizona but in the entire country.  Call it my cynicism but I believe that this whole immigration issue has a deeper significance than what we see on the surface.  FDR once said "In politics nothing happens on accident.  If it happens you can bet it was planned that way." Although this thought was at the back of my mind, I couldn't quite figure out what purpose it served...until I came across the article above.  The article reports that Congress is trying to pass new legislation regarding a National ID card.  This is the same idea that they have been trying to pass for decades [http://epic.org/privacy/id-cards/].  Now it appears they may have another opportunity to finally push through this legislation.

According to the article, "Democratic leaders have proposed requiring every worker in the nation to carry a national identification card with biometric information, such as a fingerprint, within the next six years ... The national ID program would be titled the Believe System, an acronym for Biometric Enrollment, Locally stored Information and Electronic Verification of Employment." (emphasis mine).

 But Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.), who has worked on the proposal and helped unveil it at a press conference Thursday, predicted the public has become more comfortable with the idea of a national identification card.

“The biometric identification card is a critical element here,” Durbin said. “For a long time it was resisted by many groups, but now we live in a world where we take off our shoes at the airport and pull out our identification.

With that being said, here is my theory:

For years the Federal government does nothing about the illegal immigration problem.  They hope that this will "encourage" state government to become fed up with the national government not doing anything about it and pass strong and controversial legislation, which in turn causes quite an uproar from the people in the country.  The people in the country call upon the national government to step in and deal with the immigration issue in order to get rid of the tough legislation passed by a certain state or states.  So the national government does step in and in the legislation they pass they put in a section dealing with the national ID card.  And therefore, they finally get their legislation passed dealing with a national identification card!

This may be an extreme theory but I would bet that there is something similar to this happening with this immigration issue and the national ID card.

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