Comments on: Some citizen ID cards are more equal than others http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/09/30/some-citizen-id-cards-are-more-equal-than-others/ She escaped from the belly of the liberal beast Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:39:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bookworm http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/09/30/some-citizen-id-cards-are-more-equal-than-others/#comment-15264 Bookworm Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:33:25 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=1896#comment-15264 What an excellent point. What an excellent point.

]]> By: Synova http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/09/30/some-citizen-id-cards-are-more-equal-than-others/#comment-15265 Synova Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:30:46 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=1896#comment-15265 It's not the lack of an ID card that makes illegals vulnerable to crime and other exploitation. It's the fact that they are illegal. Anything that perpetuates an illegal sub-class perpetuates the victimization of those people. It could be violent crime unreported or it could just be labor exploitation. Even legal immigrants in the Bay Area face exploitation due to not having English and not understanding what protections they are entitled to. I volunteered to teach English at my church when I lived there and met many a legal Vietnamese immigrant trapped in exploitive employment by needing to work for *Vietnamese* who could speak with them. My neighbor got in trouble with her Peruvian "in-laws" because they sent over their illegal domestic worker and she paid the girl what housekeepers should get paid. If she got paid decent she wouldn't clean their houses for nothing anymore. There, again, it was legal Peruvians exploiting an illegal Peruvian. Because they *could*. An ID is not going to solve this problem. It’s not the lack of an ID card that makes illegals vulnerable to crime and other exploitation. It’s the fact that they are illegal. Anything that perpetuates an illegal sub-class perpetuates the victimization of those people.

It could be violent crime unreported or it could just be labor exploitation. Even legal immigrants in the Bay Area face exploitation due to not having English and not understanding what protections they are entitled to. I volunteered to teach English at my church when I lived there and met many a legal Vietnamese immigrant trapped in exploitive employment by needing to work for *Vietnamese* who could speak with them. My neighbor got in trouble with her Peruvian “in-laws” because they sent over their illegal domestic worker and she paid the girl what housekeepers should get paid. If she got paid decent she wouldn’t clean their houses for nothing anymore. There, again, it was legal Peruvians exploiting an illegal Peruvian. Because they *could*.

An ID is not going to solve this problem.

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