Posted on 04/23/2009 4:01:19 PM PDT by pissant
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A post-9/11 law that sets federal standards for state driver's licenses and identification cards is under fire from the head of the agency enforcing that law, the Department of Homeland Security.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano this week said she is working with governors to repeal the Real ID Act, which was passed in 2005 and went into effect last year.
The bill is popular in Washington, but is scorned by many governors who bear the responsibility and cost of validating that holders of driver's licenses are citizens or legal residents of the United States.
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Guess what this will do to states having photo ID requirement to vote?
Lengua, cultura, fronteras.
She’s really asking for it.....and if we get “hit”.....I predict she’ll be strung up first....
Nepolitano is a friggin idiot, but she has the job and a responsible person doesn’t as is the case with most of this administrations’ appointments. My son-in-law is a flying liberal and he loves these past 100 days, but can’t give a legitimate example of why
ping
Didn’t some here oppose this act? I don’t like Nappy, but she may be doing the right thing (if for the wrong reason)
At the same time there is nothing wrong with, and nothing stopping, states from instituting, for their own state drivers licenses, the same citizen and/or legal resident checks that “real Id” required.
Not that your son in law is necessarily one, but most liberals like to be fed at the public trough. The learning institutions have done their jobs well while the parents slept.
another day..another way of making America less safe...these ass clowns will burn in hell...their teeth will gnash....burn you clowns..BURN
I’m livid over this crap. Her specific job is our security and she actually wants us less safe. incredible
/johnny
“My son-in-law is a flying liberal...”
You have my sympathy. Do you know anybody with a backhoe and wooded property?
I have lost friends over this, I flat refuse to share airspace with them. Fortunately my entire family are conservatives..... well, they could just be shining me on to stay alive. ;>)
Most Libs don’t think the terrorists have the means to hit us again so it’s fine to weaken security.
Regards . . . Penny
“it is a back-door to a federal national ID card system.”
You mean, like a Social Security Card?
Speechless
“You mean, like a Social Security Card?”
When was the last time the police asked you for your social security card at a traffic ticket stop? And when was the last time you had to show your social security card to get your airline boarding pass? And when was a social security card ALL you needed to get a passport, bank account, credit card, visa, etc., etc? When? Never.
Apples and oranges.
Ping!
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