As I was writing another diary about the Kennedy-Kyl immigration bill I suddenly realized that it may contain a huge Trojan Horse.
One of the provisions requires that employer verify employment eligibility electronically before an employee starts a job. That immediately brought up some concerns about privacy and identity theft. Another concern is just plain database errors in such a huge system. Will an individual have a way to correct an incorrect listing? What happens when somebody gets accidentally deleted?
And then I remembered fellow Kosack Jesselyn Radack and her story of being blacklisted for her private-sector job.
What if BushCo was considering to use this system not just to verify the right to work, but also to deny it?
Am I in tinfoil territory here? Or is the situation so bad that such a thing is even thinkable?