Immigration Bill Has Always Been a Ruse for a National Biometric ID

Credit cards now have (Radio Frequency ID) RFID chips in them. Supermarkets are already tracking your purchases with shopper cards and now scanners. This was talked about back in 2002. Chipping people by implanting chips subdermally is already here. This is going to be part of your Universal Healthcare too. Why do you think they want to digitize all of our records? They say it's to make healthcare cheaper... so do you believe that? Currently they are chipping some soldiers and first responders, prisoners, the elderly, school children's backpacks and clothing, and the willing. When they get enough people buying into chipping they will make it so you won't have a choice. Some companies already chip their employees. If you don't have State and Federal representatives busy drafting laws to protect you from being forced to get chipped then you better start talking to them about it. This IS coming! In fact, it is already here. I don't know about you, but I am not a piece of inventory or some livestock. Wake up America!!!! - RFID Micro-chipping Of Everyone Is On The Horizon, June 30, 2009, yedies.blogspot.com

Rubio to push biometric system in U.S. Senate immigration bill

May 15, 2013

Reuters - Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, who is considered crucial for the success of an immigration law overhaul, on Tuesday vowed to fight for a biometric system to track foreigners leaving the country after a Senate panel rejected the provision, in part because it was too costly.

Rubio and seven other Republican and Democratic senators, known as the "gang of eight," have crafted a sweeping bill that would revamp the immigration system, increase work visas and put millions of illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship.

In its second day of examining the legislation, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted against the Republican amendment that would have made it easier for the government to track illegal immigrants and other foreigners who have overstayed their visas.

The amendment would have required a biometric system, which uses technology such as iris scans and fingerprinting, at every point of entry in the United States before illegal immigrants would be eligible for permanent residency or a green card.

Citing a $25 billion price tag and saying it would delay citizenship for the unauthorized foreigners, two of the Republicans who helped craft the bill sided with Democrats to defeat the amendment 12-6.

In an effort to keep the legislation intact, the bipartisan gang of eight senators agreed to work together to block amendments that could kill the bill.

But Rubio's office said he was disappointed by the vote and would fight to add biometrics to the exit system when the bill is considered by the full Senate later this year.

"Having an exit system that utilizes biometric information will help make sure that future visitors to the United States leave when they are supposed to," his spokesman said.

Immigration reform advocates hope Rubio's popularity with conservatives will help sell the bill to his party.

The committee has already succeeded in rejecting other Republican attempts to beef up border security in ways that go beyond the bill and could jeopardize the path to citizenship.

On Thursday, lawmakers were due to consider changes to work visa programs and were under pressure from businesses to make it easier to recruit highly skilled workers from other countries and bring in more foreigners to do manual labor.

High-tech companies and other businesses are pushing for changes to provisions that would require firms to seek American applicants first for any job and that would prohibit the displacement of U.S. workers. The companies are backing a series of amendments by Republican Utah Senator Orrin Hatch concerning the skilled worker visa program known as H1-B.

The AFL-CIO labor organization opposes the amendments, saying they would be unfair to American workers.

The committee delayed some of Hatch's most controversial amendments to give lawmakers time to hash out a compromise.

Hatch, whose support is important because it would increase pressure on the Republican-led House to work on legislation, said he has had conversations with the Senate gang of eight and has made clear the H1-B visa issue may be pivotal to his vote.

"I think they're taking me seriously. Let's put it that way," Hatch said of the Senate gang. "And I hope they do because if they don't, I'm not going to support this bill."

As the committee debated changes to the nearly 900-page bill, a group of conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives vowed to "tear up" and defeat that bill if it reaches their chamber.

They derided the Senate legislation as little more than "amnesty" for those who have come to the United States illegally or overstayed their visas. If enacted, they said it would cost U.S. taxpayers trillions of dollars.

Representative Steve King of Iowa told reporters that House conservatives were launching a public relations campaign consisting of floor speeches, opinion articles and other actions to "get the message out that there's another viewpoint here. It's not the one that's being stampeded in the Senate and may be stampeded in the House."

Representative Steve Stockman of Texas, referring to the eight Republican and Democratic senators who wrote the Senate's immigration bill, said, 

"They have a gang of eight. We're going to have a gang of millions" who, Stockman said, "will rise up against" the bill.

Instead of comprehensive immigration reform, these House conservatives want new steps to secure the southwestern U.S. border against illegal crossings before considering other changes to immigration law.

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