Passport Office. in which she called for a national registration of all Americans. complete with the issuance of a national identity card to each citizen. Ms. Knight contends that fraudulent documentation for the purpose of obtaining passports or otier U.S. Government benefits represents a serious problem in our country and that we owe "every American citizen a true. recorded national identity." She further predicts that only a small minority of honest Americans along with criminals. illegal aliens. and tax dodgers would oppose a national registration system. I am shocked and dismayed that an American. and one who is a high public official. would espouse such authoritarian methods. Ms.
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Illegal aliens are grouped with criminals and tax dodgers as those who would oppose a national registration system.