Sara Jacobs: “Mr. Chairman, it has been said that we need a reliable source to identify illegal immigrants, or legal immigrants or…”

“Mr. Chairman, it has been said that we need a reliable source to identify illegal immigrants, or legal immigrants or legal people, citizens. So the question arises: Just how reliable would a Social Security card with a picture on it be? And the answer lies in an old Volkswagen ad on a snowy day, when a guy gets up real dark and early, gets in a Volkswagen, tools along, goes to a barn and pulls out a snow plow and they said, ``Do you ever wonder how the guy who drives the snow plow gets to the snow plow in the morning?'' Now, how does one get to a Social Security card if one is not born in the United States? Submit a birth certificate. How difficult is it to fake a birth certificate? Or do we want to amend this now and require pictures on birth certificates? The law would require that a baby submit a picture, I guess. Here we got a 3-day-old baby in the hospital, and they motor on down to the Federal building, take a shot of the baby and, as my colleagues know, people will not always look the same after 20 years or so as they do 2 or 3 days after they are born. What would we do with Mrs. Clinton? I mean, she might look one way one day and another way another day. So how reliable is it ultimately going to be? As a matter of fact, my own judgment is that we have had this over the years. This is about $3 billion worth of wishful thinking. Now, let us try another one. Two hundred million mug shots on file here in the Federal Government.”