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Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers

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525 points alex77456 | 2 comments | 26 Sep 25 02:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.47s | source
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randerson ◴[26 Sep 25 19:35 UTC] No.45390198[source]▶
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paxys ◴[26 Sep 25 20:16 UTC] No.45390614[source]▶
Inability to work is going to be a far bigger deterrance to illegal immigration than any kind of border control you can put up. Regardless of all the propaganda immigrants aren't coming into the country in droves to bum around, commit crimes and get free services from the government. They want to be able to work and live a normal life. If you deny them that, they will look elsewhere.
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kypro[dead post] ◴[26 Sep 25 20:34 UTC] No.45390748[source]▶
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BriggyDwiggs42 ◴[26 Sep 25 20:47 UTC] No.45390869[source]▶
Maybe your idea of afghani culture isn’t exactly representative. Also likely that the immigrants’ culture would differ from that of their native country.
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1. kypro ◴[26 Sep 25 21:53 UTC] No.45391387[source]▶
The British government advises me against any travel to Afghanistan because Afghans might try to kill me. This is a country that fought a civil war in the pursuit of suppressing women's rights after all.

> Also likely that the immigrants’ culture would differ from that of their native country.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jun/16/donald-tru...

I hope you're right and we're getting that 1% of moderate Afghans who just believe that homosexuality is wrong, not that it should be punishable by death.

Could you do me a favour and ask yourself if you would take your wife and children on holiday to Afghanistan? Is the answer yes or no? If it's no, please explain why I should therefore be okay with my government allow undocumented Afghan men live in the hotel by my family? At a minimum should we not be vetting these people?

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2. ForHackernews ◴[26 Sep 25 22:40 UTC] No.45391757[source]▶
Many of them are people who served alongside British forces, risking their lives to try and prevent the Taliban from turning Afghanistan back into a fundamentalist hellhole. They failed, the US failed, the UK failed, but I submit that most Afghan refugees have much more up-close-and-personal reasons to hate and fear Islamic fundamentalism than you do.