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 )