Colombians to chip seasonal workers?

[Pat McCotter]

Try Some Chips on Immigration?

The focus on immigration has sparked creative ideas on how to deal with the issue. Sens. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), on their recent trip to Latin America, picked up some unusual suggestions in a chat with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe .

The senators, according to an account Specter put in the Congressional Record, asked Uribe about seasonal workers who don't return home. Uribe had a nifty solution.

"President Uribe said he would consider having Colombian workers have microchips implanted into their bodies before they are permitted to enter the United States to work on a seasonal basis," Specter reported.

"I doubted whether the implantation of microchips would be effective," Specter reflected, "since the immigrant worker might be able to remove them."

[Pat McCotter]

Uribe explains microchip comment 

Mr Uribe's alleged remarks have proved controversial
Colombia's president has tried to clarify his comments after a US senator said he had raised the idea of putting microchips in seasonal workers.
Arlen Specter said President Alvaro Uribe had suggested this could help to stem illegal immigration into the US.

After coming under fire for the alleged comments, Mr Uribe said he had spoken about technology as a way of stopping people from overstaying their visas.

The alleged remarks come as the US Senate debates immigration reform.

On Thursday, Mr Specter - who held talks with Mr Uribe in April - read out a report in the US Congress in which he alleged:

"President Uribe said he would consider having Colombian workers have microchips implanted into their bodies before they are permitted to enter the United States to work on a seasonal basis."

Mr Specter said he had been expressing concerns about workers who travelled to the US for temporary farm work and then did not return to their country after their visa had expired.

But in an interview on City TV, Mr Uribe said that in his meeting with US senators he had called for more flexible and less "draconian" immigration laws.

"If the United States, with all its technology, computers and chips, doesn't have the means to know who enters or leaves the country then where are we?," he said.

Asked whether that meant he had mentioned the implantation of microchips, Mr Uribe said he had "nothing else to add".

[BillyC]

"Asked whether that meant he had mentioned the implantation of microchips, Mr Uribe said he had "nothing else to add".

hmmmm what do you think that means. :whp2:


Would poor hungry desperate people take the number of beast to gain citizenship and a better life for their families?  ???

If so where does that leave the rest of us who wont? 

[Dreepa]

If so where does that leave the rest of us who wont? 

GULAG

[BillyC]

If so where does that leave the rest of us who wont? 

GULAG

indeed

or we become Nomads in our own country! 

[aries]

"Hey it worked for Columbia, no one from over there is complaining. All I'm suggesting here is that we put this tiny little chip, with some basic data, into each American who wants to do business in this country. The law already passed in the house. We're not FORCING them to, they could always go live in some wierdo survavalist commune... until the DEA and FBI do a joint raid!"

-US Senator, not-so-distant future.

[aries]

Then when NH fights it, Gatsas will chime in:

"This is NOT a national ID card! It is a domestic working permit, plain and simple. Like your RealID."