ABsolutely right. When social security numbers were first issued by FDR's administration, there was a promise that they would never be used as a national ID. Within a few years, FDR used social security numbers combined with the 1940 census to round up japanese Americans and put them in internment camps. The way the U.S. government distinguished between japanese Americans and Chinese Americans was by SS numbers and the Census.
ABsolutely right. When social security numbers were first issued by FDR's administration, there was a promise that they would never be used as a national ID. Within a few years, FDR used social security numbers combined with the 1940 census to round up japanese Americans and put them in internment camps. The way the U.S. government distinguished between japanese Americans and Chinese Americans was by SS numbers and the Census.