Yesterday morning I read an AP story, "Senate Votes to Double Employer Fines for Illegal Immigrants," which included this:
Employers who don't use the new computerized system could be fined $200 to $600. The system would include information from the Social Security Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and Homeland Security Department.
"What 'new computerized system?'" I asked myself. The article didn't explain, so I tried to find out for myself. The new system, it turns out, is the Employment Eligibility Verification System, which is intended, in part, to "respond to all inquiries ... on whether individuals are authorized to be employed and to register all times when such inquiries are not received."
At which point I asked myself, "Am I overreating, or have the neocons moved one step closer to their Big Brother dream of tracking and storing every move we make?"
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