Cato’s Jim Harper sees peril in Romney’s love of E-Verify, a supposedly anti-immigration database with plenty of potential for collateral damage to citizens’ liberties: “It’s technically possible to have a biometric card that solely indicates one’s qualification to work under federal law,” Harper says, “but as I wrote in my paper, ‘Franz Kafka’s Solution to Illegal Immigration,’ there is almost no chance that the government would limit itself this way. E-Verify requires a national identity system, and Mitt Romney wants that national identity system.”