Oh goody, another new freedom-reducing, error-laden database administered by the government. I can hardly wait.
[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"][br style="background-color: rgb(230, 230, 230);"][span style="background-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); font-weight: bold;"]Cnet is reporting that the US Congress, in their quest for immigration reform, seeks to force employers to utilize a [/span][a style="background-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" href="vny!://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6185466.html"]database to determine a person's eligibility for employment[/a][span style="background-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); font-weight: bold;"]. The Department of Homeland Security would operate the database and would be given access to IRS records for this purpose. The article mentions similarities between this proposal and the [/span][a style="background-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" href="vny!://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/08/2042247&tid=158"]no-fly list[/a][span style="background-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); font-weight: bold;"] — and the expectation of similar difficulties the proposed database could pose to valid people seeking employment.[/span]
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1) Does anyone with half a clue think that the workers hanging around a street corner at 6am looking for construction bosses to pick them up are LEGAL? Who's kidding whom here? They're not checking documents now, and that's a legal requirement already. Do they really think that the existence of a database will somehow make people care any more?
2) "This bill brings us closer to an immigration system that enforces our laws and upholds the great American tradition of welcoming those who share our values and our love of freedom," President Bush said in his radio address on Saturday.
[br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 64);"][span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 64);"]Somehow I feel that "[/span][span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 64);"]love of freedom[/span][span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 64);"]" isn't quite the right term here....[/span]
3) Next up, the DHS will attempt to create national a database of irrational numbers, just because they can.
This is just another list that people can mistakenly get put on for no particular reason other than having done nothing wrong.
