 a national id card  the senate proposed legislation attempting to solve the illegal immigration problem the new biometric national id will be used to make sure you aren t hired if you are an undocumented alien anyone who is seeking employment will have to show the id to their potential employer no one will be hired without having this id the federal government feels the need for another government run agency the administrative costs of such a system will add to the growing debt the cost to the businesses to acquire the equipment to read the ids just adds another expense they can t afford this is an invasion of our privacy rights i don t want government requiring me to have an electronic id that can be hacked into it would be in everybody s best interest to enforce the current immigration laws spending millions of dollars to create another level of bureaucracy is unconscionable if you think your privacy rights are being jeopardized by this proposal vote for people who are running for office this fall who will protect those rights submitted for publication to the lansing state journal on april 6 2010 and the clinton county news st johns dewitt informer the owosso independent on march 23 2010 published in the clinton county news on april 11 2010 the st johns dewitt informer on april 26 2010 the owosso independent on march 28 2010  