Posted on 10/10/2007 4:27:06 AM PDT by Man50D
The White House is going to stick with its REAL ID plan for making sure of the identities of those in the United States, whether U.S. citizens or not, according to spokeswoman Dana Perino.
She was asked about a pending controversy sparked by New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who approved granting state driver's licenses to illegal aliens.
"New York Gov. Spitzer's approval of state driver's licenses for illegal aliens has been deplored by New York Mayors Koch, Giuliani and Bloomberg. And my question: Does the president agree with them, or with Spitzer?" asked Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House
"We'll stick with our REAL ID Act which the president encouraged Congress to pass and that he signed into law," she said.
The plan, according to the federal government, is a "nationwide effort intended to prevent terrorism, reduce fraud, and improve the reliability and accuracy of identification documents that State governments issue."
It arose from the ashes of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, with the federal commission investigating the attacks suggested the U.S. improve its system for issuing secure ID.
As the commission concluded, "At many entry points to vulnerable facilities, including gates for boarding aircraft, sources of identification are the last opportunity to ensure that people are who they say they are and to check whether they are terrorists."
The program that eventually was approved by Congress focused on standards for such identification documents.
The Department of Homeland Security this year released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the act, a move toward the actual implementation of the law.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Good idea.
close our borders first.......and then see if its needed
That's a better solution.
I’m with you 100% on building the wall and militarizing the border. But how does having certified ID grab any of my freedom?
IMHO The last thing this real ID will be used for will be to stop illegal immigration. It will be used on American citizens.
Because the DC traitors kept our borders open is the only reason there is talk of real ID
Even after Sept11 GWBush has kept the borders open.
They always sabotage a border fence
see #6
You can't say what the "last thing" will be because it is incremental.
But, you can identify the "next thing" it will be used for. The above article confirms what was in Title 3 of the immigration bill last June, that Real ID and employee verification will be linked. And, as Title 3 spelled out, beginning in 2013, you will have to have a Real ID compliant id in order to work.
But, it was the Grassley amendment that passed and killed the clay pigeon bill and that amendment struck Title 3 from the bill.
There is a mini-revolt among the some states and that revolt has spread to the Senate.
American citizens need not give up one more iota of privacy to a government that wants the borders wide open.
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