"liberal elites by cooking their food"?

As if "Conservatives" don;t do the same thing...

#31 Anchor Babies is a perfectly spot on term. These illegals come over the border ON PURPOSE to pump out their chihauhuas so that they become U.S. Citizens, then, when they turn 18, they petition to bring their entire brood over here. In the meantime, we give the little yipper free healthcare and schooling and the mother gets all kinds of free care too. Babies should not be given American Citizenship just because they are born within our borders. Especially not if the parents are here as illegals. We are one of the very few if not the ONLY country in the world that does this.

If this ID costs less than a Passport, I'm all for it and want one.

I only have one piece of "legitimate" ID and that's my state issued ID. Too many places want 2 pieces of ID nowadays and I don't know why. (and it's not in their policy, they just say so)

ID cards for all NYC residents? As a NYC resident, I would like to propose intelligence tests for all NYC Council Members.

#29 "Immigrants documented and undocumented are a boon to this city economically and culturally.

Bullshit. They work as slaves to the liberal elites by cooking their food, cleaning their homes and offices, doing their laundry, and raising their kids. And landscaping their lawns for the Westchester and Fairfiled County liberals.

It isn't about doing jobs Americans won't do. It's doing jobs we don't need in the first place."

Sorry fool, but this ain't a liberal/conservative thing. It's an American thing. Secondly, the conswervatives LOVE illegals! They get to keep wages low so that they can reap big profits on their corporate investments. Illegals helped to break up unions, which conservatives hate! Illegals also landscape the lawns of NJ/Staten Island/and Queens conservatives, so shut the fuck up.

It's the American way, now I'm not for illegal alioens and I think they should all be thrown out of this country but I'd say the conservatives aqre the ones to blame more than the liberals, although both parties are fugged up!

Bloomberg/Schwartzenegger 2008!

#29 got it right. Read it again!

@18

There's no reason why these cards could not be

offered for sale at a profit.

"anchor babies"?????????

where does gothamist get all these racists?

This has to be the most repulsive idea yet from NYC City Council.

Let me guess, "gain access to municipal services" means that the illegals will now have an easier time leeching off the rest of us, via easier access to welfare, city colleges, etc, all of which we pay for and they (mostly) don't. Isn't free health care via emergency rooms and maternity wards for their anchor babies and free schooling for their many children enough?

If he proposed we allow more legal immigrants from genuinely poor and politically repressive countries like North Korea, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Burma and China, I would support that.

We already let in 400,000 legal Mexicans a year, yet Mexico, home to the world's richest man and a relatively wealthy country, still demands an open border so they can export all their criminals and pretty much their entire uneducated, ignorant and surly underclass to us. This gringo thinks America and this city can do better. Hiram Monserrate is a traitor.

Immigrants documented and undocumented are a boon to this city economically and culturally.

Bullshit. They work as slaves to the liberal elites by cooking their food, cleaning their homes and offices, doing their laundry, and raising their kids. And landscaping their lawns for the Westchester and Fairfiled County liberals.

It isn't about doing jobs Americans won't do. It's doing jobs we don't need in the first place.

Man, that's one ID card I'd be proud to carry around, more than my state driver's license and a hell of a lot more than my passport.

whitey up in arms again,

come take them,

molon labe.

#15 Everyone deserves all rights? Ummm, what part of the word ILLEGAL don't you understand?

To commenter #15: I don't think you make very much sense, but I take issue with the idea that "everyone deserves all rights." Why does "everybody deserver all rights"? Not to rain on anyone's parade, but there is really no such thing as an inalienable right. Not that I am saying that people don't deserve them, just that they don't really exist. I mean, look at what the Patriot Act did for our supposedly inalienable rights.

To be a devil's advocate, if someone is here illegally, why are they entitled to the same benefits that a citizen is? If they don't pay taxes should they have access to all social services (which are funded through those taxes)? Doesn't the presence of illegal aliens make it more difficult for immigrants trying to enter this country legally?

It's really hard to take someone who says that all people who disagree should be or taken out in the streets and shot or "strung-up" (a rather sad and unintentionally ironic allusion to lynching and other violations of civil-rights) and then says that everybody deserves equal rights in the next breath seriously.

#10 said: Ask yourself this - Have you ever heard of Hiram Monserrate before today?

Unfortunately yes - he "serves" my neighborhood in Queens. I am not a fan of just about anything he does. As a politician, he seems to me one of the more obnoxious and self-serving. He routinely disrupts small, independently-run, neighborhood events to give himself a platform. His propaganda and my shredder are well-acquainted.

Hey, #15, YOU are the one out of step with majority thought on this issue. So, if You don't like it, the GTFO. Pissant.

I am totally against this, and will be lobbying my Congressional reps to outlaw this kind of behavior from assorted municipalities. How in the HELL can NYC gov require me to clean up my sidewalk, not smoke in a bar, or anything else they would have me do, when they themselves do not submit their will to a higher authority?

Maybe Congress can impose a fine per violation scheme much as we "enjoy" in NYC.

I'm not anti immigrant... I'm just anti illegals, and anti muslims.

This ID card wouldn't just be for immigrants. To get ID you already need some form of ID. Most of my clients, who are homeless, have no identification when we start working with them. By the time we get a birth certificate, social security card, and welfare photo ID card for them, they STILL don't have enough ID to get a non-drivers license or even open a bank account. It's ridiculous.

I say the more ways to prove one's identity, the better.

I am obviously in the minority here.

The idea that a government officer would propose a course of action that condones (or even encourages) illegal immigration (i.e. BREAKING THE LAW) is ridiculous. There are procedures in place for documenting people who come to this country, either as visitors or immigrants, and they're there for a reason.

Immigrants documented and undocumented are a boon to this city economically and culturally. It is the city's obligation to at the very least do what it can do to increae the rights of undocumented new yorkers. This will allow people without papers to more easily open bank accounts, report crimes to the police and feel moreaccepted in a city that simultaneously rejects and relies on them.