PIML 96053108 / Forwarded to Patriot Information Mailing List: Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 10:44:36 -0400 From: freematt@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor) Subject: Clinton Expands National ID >From ACLU News: *Clinton Expands National ID* Seeking to further demonstrate its tough stance against illegal immigration, the Clinton Administration announced Thursday a national expansion of a pilot program in California that requires participating employers to verify the legal status of job seekers, according to a front page article in the New York Times. Specifically, the Immigration and Naturalization Service reached agreement with the nation's four largest meat-packing companies (representing 80 percent of the industry's 70,000 employees) to use a computerized data system at 41 plants in 12 Western and Midwestern states to determine if job applicants are documented workers. The ACLU and other civil libertarians have long criticized the plan, saying it would lead to an costly, intrusive and error-prone national identification card. The effort announced today builds on the seven-month-old pilot program in two Southern California counties, Santa Ana and the City of Industry. Meanwhile, immigration bills approved by the House and the Senate, and now awaiting resolution in a conference committee, include differing provisions that would expand pilot programs even further to allow the INS to more quickly evaluate among different systems. "These pilot programs all lead down the same path," said Greg T. Nojeim, an ACLU Legislative Counsel. "Unless the public steps up its pressure to stop them from proceeding, the government will build a giant computer registry that will require every single hiring decision in this country to be cleared through a centralized database." For general information about the ACLU, write to info@aclu.org **************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt@coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor,1933 E. Dublin-Granville Rd.,#176, Columbus, OH 43229 **************************************************************************** * Patriot Information Mailing List * http://constitution.org/piml/piml.htm * A service to help inform those who have an active interest in * returning our federal and state governments to limited, * constitutional government * Send messages for consideration and possible posting to * butterb@sagenet.net (Bill Utterback). * To subscribe or unsubscribe, send message with subject line * "subscribe patriot" or "unsubscribe patriot" * Forwarded messages sent on this mailing list are NOT verified. * See World's Smallest Political Quiz: www.self-gov.org/quiz.html * Libertarian is to LIBERTY as librarian is to library (DePena) * PIML grants permission to copy and repost this message * in its entirety with headers and trailers left intact.