2006-10-04 07:13:33 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Sounds like a good idea if it's done right. The US should look into this, a card with bio-metric memory chip with information to prove the holders identity, when compaired to a government computer database.
This may also stop all the identity thief if computers had a way to read and transmit the data.
2006-10-04 07:21:29 · answer #1 · answered by kniggs 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. It would simply be one more thing to forge.
Even now you are supposed to have a NI number to work, but these have been issued practically on demand. Plus there is a larege black sector of the economy offering cash in hand jobs, why, if ID cards were issued, would this suddenly change? It would not.
As proposed, carrying your ID would not be legally required. If stopped in the street an illegal immigrant could feign ignorance / lack of understanding, suggest they were here on holiday, or say they were citizens of another EU country. All reasonable reasons for not having even a compulsory ID. and given 24 hours to produce it, would simply never be seen again.
2006-10-04 07:22:58 · answer #2 · answered by agtfos 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
"People will still enter Britain using foreign documents—genuine or forged—and ID cards offer no more deterrent to people smugglers than passports and visas. Employers already face substantial penalties for failing to obtain proof of entitlement to work, yet there are only a handful of prosecutions a year."
2006-10-04 07:43:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ceretainly make it a lot easier for them to be found and recognised, No ID card, not UK citizen. I've no problem with them, and have moved to a country that uses them, have already applied for mine.
2006-10-04 07:44:21 · answer #4 · answered by mike-from-spain 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a nutshell No, This country has always been a democracy, a bastion of free speech, in giving in to a stupid and Orwelian Law,
we would be giving in too a complete Nanny State, which is allready over the top.
2006-10-04 10:19:29 · answer #5 · answered by highmmp 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Good point, I never quite understood the concept of ID cards.
2006-10-04 07:21:42 · answer #6 · answered by Tina 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No they could be forged. Also it would be another step towards the "Big Brother" state. George Orwell's1984 is rapidly becoming a fact of life.
2006-10-04 07:30:42 · answer #7 · answered by George v 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course not - it would just give the criminals something else to work on and charge for. And the people smugglers who charge to illegally smuggle these people in would have another thing to charge them for!!
2006-10-04 13:39:33 · answer #8 · answered by libbyft 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, the human traffickers who bring them here now would find a way to forge them or obtain them by other means.
2006-10-04 07:21:50 · answer #9 · answered by Ahwell 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. They would find other ways of getting in to the country. or they would make false ones!
2006-10-04 07:17:17 · answer #10 · answered by interested_party 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋