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I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them.

— David Blunkett

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There should be a path to earned legal status for those that are here. Not - not amnesty - earned legal status, which means you pay a fine and do many things over an extended period of time.

— Jeb Bush

I don't agree with registering people based on ethnicity or religion.

— John F. Kelly

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

— Richard Lamm

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

— Ron Paul

Without a national ID and the ability to create true data that can be be safely and securely sent between individuals, we are going to introduce new systemic risk back into the system.

— Neal Patterson

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

— Tom Tancredo

We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what's to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern.

— Frank Abagnale

✗Opposing Perspectives

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

— Malcolm Wallop

I'm not in favor of any amnesty whatsoever.

— Sam Graves

I don't believe in amnesty... What I have proposed is that we would come forth with a program that allows individuals to come forward and to plead guilty... They would have to pay a fine; they would have to go through a background check - some say learn English - and they would get learned legal status.

— Chris Gibson