House must STOP Big Brother

by Conservative Action Alerts on July 9, 2013

ALERT: House must oppose biometric database, national ID in immigration reform! Take Action & Blast Faxes to Congress!

American Conservative,
Harry Reid and the U.S. Senate passed the Gang of Eight’s “immigration reform” bill late last month containing 1,200 pages of rules that few have even read.
With the Senate having made their decision – passing S. 744 with 68 yays and 32 nays – the future of immigration legislation lies with the House of Representatives.
This said, it’s time for the House to lead.
U.S. Representatives must avoid duplicating the Senate’s mistakes and restart immigration reform legislation from the ground up, tackling issues individually through short, straightforward bills.
The Gang of Eight’s most glaring red flag – one that we must alert House members to oppose in their immigration reform efforts – is its provision that would establish a national biometric database, the pathway to a national ID.
While many aspects of the Senate’s Gang of Eight plan are dangerous, expensive, unwise, and unconstitutional, the bill’s language for increased surveillance on all citizens is its most brazen attack on our freedom.
Sen. Rand Paul tried to kill the national database and ID by filing Amendment #1333 to the Senate bill; sadly, his remedy was completely ignored by Majority Leader Reid and never took a single vote.
Simply, the House must do better. They must refuse to support any type of national database or national identification card in the name of “fixing immigration.”
With the Congress now back from the July 4th Recess, it’s of the utmost importance that we contact them on this right away! Send faxes, sign our free petition, and call Congress now!
Take Action! Blast Faxes to Congress and tell them to OPPOSE all attempts to establish a biometric database and national ID through immigration reform legislation! No ‘immigration fix’ should cost Americans their freedom!
GO8 Plan Grows Big Brother
Page 521 of the Senate-passed “Corker Hoeven” Gang of Eight bill details the establishment of a “photo tool” – a giant federal database managed by the Department of Homeland Security, supplied with individuals’ biometric information from all of the fifty states.
If established, the database would house a file for every person carrying a driver’s license or equivalent state-issued photo I.D., and contain their name, age, Social Security number, along with their photograph.
This database would also determine whether or not one is permitted to find employment. In other words, without becoming an entry in a federal database, Americans will be unable to secure a job or freely work where and as they choose!
“The Secretary shall develop and maintain a photo tool that enables employers to match the photo on a covered identity document provided to the employer to a photo maintained by a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services database.”
(S. 744; page 521,522.)
This stands to show that S. 744 as it currently exists not only violates our right to privacy, but our right to work as well!
Congress is simply unauthorized to craft this type of freedom-killing legislation. Nowhere in the Constitution is the federal government empowered with any ability to create such a “papers please” working environment – an idea that smacks of tyranny and Nazi-era Germany, not the limited government we’re supposed to have in the Land of the Free!
This is why we must mobilize right now and make sure that our voices are being heard in Congressional offices across the country and in Washington.
We must tell every member of the House of Representatives to completely oppose any such “identity authentication mechanism” in their version(s) of immigration reform legislation!
Take Action! Blast Faxes to Congress and tell them to OPPOSE all attempts to establish a biometric database and national ID through immigration reform legislation! No ‘immigration fix’ should cost Americans their freedom!
** Please, at the very minimum, sign our free petition, and call your U.S. Representative today!
Indefinite Expansion
Wired.com reports the dangers of the so-called “identity authentication mechanism” or photo tool. They see it growing outside of its limitations within the bill.
“For now, the legislation allows the database to be used solely for employment purposes. But historically such limitations don’t last,” reports Wired. “The Social Security card, for example, was created to track your government retirement benefits. Now you need it to purchase health insurance. … The Social Security number itself, it’s pretty ubiquitous in your life.”
The Science and Tech Website also cites David Bier of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s concerns about the language of S. 744.
“The most worrying aspect is that this creates a principle of permission basically to do certain activities and it can be used to restrict activities,” says Biers. “It’s like a national ID system without the card.”
Take Action! Blast Faxes to Congress and tell them to OPPOSE all attempts to establish a biometric database and national ID through immigration reform legislation! No ‘immigration fix’ should cost Americans their freedom!
** Please, at the very minimum, sign our free petition, and call your U.S. Representative today!
Sen. Paul vs. the Photo Tool
Senator Rand Paul also believes that the database created by the Immigration Scheme will lead to a National I.D. card; he says, “I worry that the Senate is working to consider a series of little-noticed provisions in comprehensive immigration reform that may provide a pathway to a national ID card for all individuals present in the United States – citizens and non-citizens. These draconian ideas would simply give government too much power.”
The Kentucky Senator has voiced opposition to the bill’s photo tool and other language that would essentially force all employers to behave like police officers and immigration cops. For these reasons, Sen. Paul has committed to remove the photo tool from the legislation. We must demand other Senators and Representatives to join him.
“I will fight to remove the photo tool from this legislation because I think it will become a national ID. We already know the federal government is rife with false positives on the no-fly list and the National Instant Check system for gun buyers. Why would we be foolish enough to think that a massive database of all citizens would not have the same problems on a grander scale?” (Sen. Paul, Washington Times)
Should the whole Congress pass the GO8 Immigration Bill with its current language, our freedom of privacy – our Constitutional “right to be left alone” - will suffer irreparable damage, also will our right to freely work be impaired.
We must rally House Members to fight this language while there is still time!
Take Action! Blast Faxes to Congress and tell them to OPPOSE all attempts to establish a biometric database and national ID through immigration reform legislation! No ‘immigration fix’ should cost Americans their freedom!
** Please, at the very minimum, sign our free petition, and call each of your U.S. Senators today!
The National ID Must Again Be Defeated
The push to mandate a National ID is not new, especially in tandem with so-called immigration reform. The 2007 immigration bill contained language for a national ID, and, thankfully, failed because of it. However, today too few lawmakers are raising alarm over the dangerous idea that Americans should be subject to increased government tracking and surveillance.
This is precisely why we must raise the alarm and demand that our lawmakers legislate in our favor - and the Bill of Rights’ favor - by completely scrapping all language in S. 744 that would establish a biometric database and a pathway to a National ID card!
Just as the 2007 immigration bill and the Real ID Act were defeated in the past, so too must the language in the GO8 plan be defeated!
The Fourth Amendment right to privacy must not be infringed!
Take Action! Blast Faxes to Congress and tell them to OPPOSE all attempts to establish a biometric database and national ID through immigration reform legislation! No ‘immigration fix’ should cost Americans their freedom!


For America,
Conservative Action Alerts
www.ConservativeActionAlerts.comP.S. The House must not repeat the Senate’s attack on the Fourth Amendment in the name of reforming immigration! Please sign our petition and send a free letter to each of your lawmakers telling them to oppose the creation of a biometric database by clicking here.
P.P.S. Also, log a call to your U.S. Representative today! It is your duty to defend the Constitution!
Take Action! Blast Faxes to Congress and tell them to OPPOSE all attempts to establish a biometric database and national ID through immigration reform legislation! No ‘immigration fix’ should cost Americans their freedom!

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