Speech #1100080669

I have always been opposed to that. but we live in a different era now. But I would much prefer to have seen the Senate debate this in the usual way and let us consider. for example. whether a secure work card. such as the kind Senator SCHUMER and Senator GRAHAM have proposed and Senator CORNYN and I have talked about. might not be a better form of ID card. Most of our immigration problems. for example. are related to work. Maybe a secure Identification card would be better. a secure Social Security card would be better. or maybe. because of privacy concerns and our memory of Nazi Germany and our memory of South Africa. we want to be very careful about having anything that is actually called a national ID card or even a de facto ID card. So maybe we can work over a period of years and help to create several cards: maybe a travel card that some can use on airplanes or other forms of travel. maybe a work card. maybe some States would want to use the drivers license as that form of ID card.