That is because Real ID has been authorized(2005) and is now being implemented.
The citizens will need Real ID to enter the courthouse, fly, open a checking account, collect a SS check, and beginning in 2013, get a job.
It seems many states have rejected the Real ID and refuse to go along with implementing it. Haven’t you been reading the articles about cities passing out ID cards to illegals and banks giving them credit cards?
Any ID plan that will work to cut down on illegals will have to be the same for everyone in the country to work.
If citizens of the US don’t need one then illegals without one of the cards would just say they were citizens and didn’t need one.
The ACLU and the liberal bed-wetters wont allow profiling and refuse to even go along with ID to vote.
Its a toothless program that will only work at legal US border crossings until the states agree to go along with it and require it for everyone. The illegals don’t cross at the legal check points.