Senate immigration group: national ID too costly

Aarti Kohli Warren Institute report cited in US News & World Report, March 12, 2013

Graham said no final decision had been made on ditching the biometric ID card idea, which had also sparked civil liberties concerns, and he declined to say how much such a card would cost. A study by the University of California, Berkeley Law School’s Warren Institute last year estimated start-up costs to the government for such a program would top $22 billion.