Ms. Rimington, the former head of MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence agency, said that further erosions of civil liberties — including identification cards and a proposal by the Labor government to hold terrorism suspects 42 days without charges — were unnecessary and counterproductive.
If Mexico didn't cooperate with preventing unauthorized immigration into the U.S., it could be punished by suspending border crossing cards -- a proposal that would likely do considerable damage to the economies of towns along the border that get business from Mexicans who cross for the day.
The A-card proposal follows Tuesday's controversial call by the Freedom party for schools, particularly those with many foreign children, to be checked for cases of tuberculosis, as it says infection rates are rising because of increasing immigration.
* In South El Monte, one of Southern California's lowest-income communities, the City Council voted 3 to 2 last week to put a card club proposal to a vote in an Aug. 9 special election.
Further proposals may be made until elder leads instead of proposing or younger refuses a proposal or no cards remain in stock.
But Mr. Romney, who takes a hard line on illegal immigration, was also banking on the likelihood that the Hispanic voters — a pivotal bloc in a pivotal state — care more about jobs and the distressed economy than green cards and the Dream Act, a proposal to give legal status to some illegal immigrants who came into the United States as children.
He also expressed support for a separate consumer financial protection agency that would regulate services like credit cards, mortgages and debt collection -- a proposal that was part of a reform bill that the House passed in December, but has faced strong opposition in the Senate.
In February, a row over tipping erupted at TGI Fridays, the American restaurant chain, following a proposal to redistribute card payment tips from waiters to kitchen staff in lieu of a wage increase.
TGI Fridays, which recently faced criticism over a proposal to redistribute card tips from waiters to kitchen staff in lieu of a wage increase, repaid £59,348 to 2,302 workers in relation to asking them to purchase black shoes as part of a uniform.
A yellow card can be turned orange (meaning a proposal is defeated) if two-thirds of national parliaments object.
