must show ID when:
1. Pulled over by the police
2. Making purchases on my department store credit card.
3. When I show up for a doctor's appointment.
4. When filling out a credit card or loan application.
5. When applying for/renewing a driver's license or passport.
6. When applying for any kind of insurance.
7. When filling out college applications.
8. When donating blood.
9. When obtaining certain prescription drugs.
10. When making some debit purchases, especially if I'm out of state.
11. When collecting a boarding pass for airline or train travel.
I'm sure there are more instances but the point is, we citizens are required to prove who we are nearly every day.
Why should people illegally in this country be exempt? For that matter, perhaps the liberals here can answer the question as to why we shouldn't guard our borders as closely as every other country in the world does?
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Guess I am just an unpatriotic bastard who should be shipped into Mexico or something. I could have all kinds of fun playing memes about this bill being rammed down our throats by a single party (members of both parties voted against it so only the opposition was bipartisan) without being openly debated, etc.
It's another tool that the big businesses who benefit the most from illegal immigration can use to keep their workers from demanding anything other than sub-poverty wages, hazardous working conditions, and substandard housing. If they make trouble, just get 'em deported. Don't worry, more will come in to take their place.
As usual, the focus is on the petty criminals who are trying to make a better life and not on the big criminals that need the petty criminals to make their profits.
Okay, rant mode off for the moment. Well, at least toned down.
SER, I should point out that many of the things on the list are not government functions. Obviously, getting pulled over by the police, you will be expected to show a license. I haven't heard anyone really having a problem with that. Driver's license function is the only other one that is strictly a government function...maybe air travel...I'll give you that one as well. All the others are typically handled by private companies (and maybe they went against policy, but I was not asked for ID when getting my most recent prescription!)
Basically, the list makes little sense. At least none of the local protests here in Tucson (remember I live in Arizona) have been protesting any of those things. Rather, it has been the very real possibility of being asked for ID for no reason...and I frequently am outside without my ID (I don't carry government ID when I run...I have a ID tag on my shoe in case something happens).
You want a debate SER, you can do better than copying and pasting a list that is circulating on all the conservative web sites...I know you are smarter than that...come on, I have met you and give you more credit than that.
Boppster...I'll get back to you on this, unfortunately I had a ruff night last night and too tired tonight to blab.
Please don't take it too personally...as you can imagine, we have been getting a never ending parade of stupid here on this from multiple directions, so filter it through that. I definitely snapped rather than trying to make me point in a little more sane manner and I apologize for the snap...if you can find the coherent pieces there, please feel free to respond to them if you like.
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