On Thursday, I interviewed Senator Lindsay Graham about the resurrected Senate immigration bill on Keith Larson's show on NewsTalk1110 WBT. (See the 9am podcast for June 14.) Graham assured me that a biometric identification card that would end document fraud by illegal immigrants seeking jobs in this country was "one of the changes coming from this bill." 
   It's a political slight of hand that Graham and other immigration bill supporters have been fooling the public with for months now. The biometric identification program is supposed to be one of the get-tough legal measures that make up the "enforcement" part of the bill. But it doesn't "come from this bill" as Graham said.
   It's actually part of the "REAL ID Act" that Congress passed in 2005 but didn't fully fund. Like every other major enforcement aspect of the Senate immigration bill, it's already passed and planned and doesn't depend on the Senate bill for implementation. In fact, like the 700-mile border fence Congress authorized in 2005, in some cases the security measures haven't been implemented because the government is stalling them or sitting on the money to fund them. At present, for instance, most of the money for the border fence is sitting unused by the Department of Homeland Security.
   As Senator Jim DeMint explains in detail here, the Senate immigration bill merely calls for security benchmarks like the completion of part of the 700-mile fence as a "trigger" before the amnesty part of the bill go into effect. So what's new in the bill? Pretty much just the amnesty part.
   Looks like the "comprehensive" part of immigration reform isn't so comprehensive at all.

   Important!!!! Contact your senators this week to tell them how you feel about resurrecting the immigration reform bill at http://www.numbersusa.com/contactcongress.html.