David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, is to press ahead next week with plans to introduce a compulsory identity card backed by a national citizens' database.
Photo ID cards issued to Mexicans spark debate over immigrants
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BELLEVILLE - Elvira PeÑa of O'Fallon displayed the ID card she got Thursday as an alternative to carrying her passport. Helaido Guzman, 36, clutched a copy of his birth certificate as he waited with hundreds of other Mexican immigrants in one of several slow moving lines in the Southwestern Illinois College gymnasium on Thursday.
Paris - Eager to deploy new digital identity documents designed to meet strict security guidelines, Belgian and French government officials gathered here last week to lay out plans for national ID card programs.
The loss of the uniforms, badges and IDs was discovered during a study of "selected members" of law enforcement agencies in five states.
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Cards conjure fears of 1984
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Since the terrorist attacks of 2001, the U.S. government has shown mounting interest in smart cards as the appropriate technology to be used in context with homeland security.
David Blunkett has given his support to the introduction of ID cards, it has been reported. The Sunday Times reported that identity cards would cost £39 for those in work and over 16 years old, while those for 16-year olds, people on low incomes and pensioners over 75 would be paid for by the Treasury.
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