Senator Proposes Fingerprinting Everyone Working In The United States

Senate Judiciary Committee Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Charles Schumer proposed yesterday that everyone with a job in this country should be fingerprinted to document his or her citizenship or other legal right to work in this country. He proposes to make this a provision in comprehensive immigration reform legislation expected in Congress, and pushed by the Obama administration, later this fall. No one is talking yet about how the government will pay for the taking and processing of 100 million sets of fingerprints, but you can bet if Schumer's proposal actually goes forward, the cost will somehow be pushed off onto the nation's businesses which employ the people to be fingerprinted. Going to work in the twenty first century is looking more and more like going to jail.