Trump will use border security to make biometric digital ID mandatory
In a classic use of the “never let a crisis go to waste” trump card (pardon the pun), Donald Trump will likely use the border security issue to introduce a mandatory national biometric digital ID — you know, in the name of safety — giving government the ability to track anyone and everyone it chooses.
Any doubts about his intentions to do such a thing are answered in the video below from his 2016 campaign:
“We will finally complete the Biometric Entry/Exit Visa Tracking System which we need desperately. It will be on land, sea, and air. We will have a proper tracking system.”
Trump and his Republican buddies, who were in control of Congress at the time, attempted to implement a biometric digital ID in 2018 when they were pretending to be working on a fix for DACA. I use the word “pretending” because Trump had twisted himself in knots trying to look like he was dealing with the DACA problem while simultaneously promising to take care of illegals because he had such a “big heart.”
In an effort to help out their fearless leader achieve his goal of a national biometric digital ID, the Republican-controlled House introduced the Securing America’s Future Act of 2018 (H.R.4760), a 400-page monstrosity authored by Rep Bob Goodlatte (R-VA). Encompassing everything from education and the workforce to Homeland Security and the military, this so-called immigration bill contained a tiny little detail about biometric identification in the form of a National ID card that would be required for every American.
According to former Congressman and current Chairman of Campaign for Liberty, Ron Paul, H.R.4760 gave DACA recipients a 3-year renewable legal status, and it established a mandatory national identification system that would require every American to carry this new card, a card capable of carrying biometric data such as fingerprints and retina scans.
Though never implemented, this card was capable of being used as a tracking device, and it would have been required to hold a job, open a bank account, or get on a plane. Sounds like it’s just a hop, skip, and a jump away from being required in order to buy and sell, doesn’t it?
H.R.4760 would have given some serious liberty-killing power to Big Brother Washington:
- It would have allowed federal bureaucrats to include biometric identification information on the card, such as: fingerprints, retinal scans, or scans of veins on the back of hands, all of which could easily be used as a tracking device.
- It would have empowered government to require every US worker, regardless of their place of birth, to carry the card, and it would have made it illegal for anyone to hold a job in the US if they didn’t obtain the ID card.
- It would have required every employer to purchase an “ID scanner” and use it to verify the ID cards with the federal government. Every time an individual applies for a job, the government would know about it.
And here’s something to ask yourself: How long do you think it would be before these biometric ID cards would be required before government allowed you to make routine purchases? Before you answer that question, consider this: the Central Bank Digital Currency currently being pushed by tyrants in both parties in Washington would have that exact power — making a biometric digital ID card a perfect companion to the CBDC and the coming social credit system.
National ID cards of this type have been proposed in the past as part of immigration reform without success. However, in the current political climate it could be successful this time around — especially when you consider the success government had when other forms of digital IDs were created during the previous “crisis” known as COVID-19.
Current and former officials around the globe believe that COVID created the perfect timing to create a digital ID card program as the solution to dealing with the lockdowns and social distancing laws created during the so-called pandemic. For example, former Prime Minister Tony Blair had this to say in an appearance at the virtual CogX technology conference in June 2020:
“You can create a digital ID today that is much more easily protected so you can deal with a lot of the privacy and surveillance issues that worry people.
“It is a natural evolution of the way that we are going to use technology in any event to transact daily life and this Covid crisis gives an additional reason for doing that.
“I think people’s disease status – have they been tested, what is the result of that test and have they had the disease, do they have the disease – unless you are able to record some of this data in a way people can use, it is going to be difficult to go back to anything like a near normal in things like transport.
“If you are going to start international travel again, how can you do that unless people can be easily tested and have some record of that test?
“There has always been a good case for introducing some form of digital ID, but I think that case is even more powerful today.” (Emphasis mine)
Almost as if he was following Blair’s lead, Donald Trump took steps to make America a testing ground for a digital ID like the one mentioned by Blair when he delegated the matter to Ivanka’s husband, Jared Kushner. It was Kushner who, in cooperation with his father-in-law, proposed the creation of a Patriot Act for healthcare and a government/private sector partnership to create a new “surveillance and data collection system” capable of tracking Americans’ COVID status.
With help from tech giants like Apple and Google, new hardware and software was designed that gave Trump and Kushner exactly what they wanted: the ability to make the names, phone numbers, and locations of every American available to the government in real-time.
Trump’s digital biometric IDs will make it easier for government to track our every move, creating a society where liberty can be destroyed at the push of a button. It begins with “monitoring” activity at the border, and it ends with military checkpoints, facial recognition, and a government that holds full control over who they will allow to move and who they won’t.
If the PATRIOT Act and COVID have shown us anything, it’s this: once this kind of government power becomes a part of everyday life, it never goes away. Something to remember whenever Trump ties border security to his digital biometric ID agenda.
David Leach is the owner of the Strident Conservative. He holds people of every political stripe accountable for their failure to uphold conservative values, and he promotes those values instead of political parties. He the author of The New Axis of Evil: Exposing the Bipartisan War on Liberty.
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