I.D. Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan

Wall Street Journal: Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain. Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an I.D. card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker. The I.D. card plan is one of several steps advocates of an immigration overhaul are taking to address concerns that have defeated similar bills in the past.