States Flouting Post-9/11 ID Law, Giving Cards To Illegal Immigrants That Mirror Licenses

LATimes ^ | April 07, 2015 | illiam La Jeunesse, Jessica Miller

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States Flouting Post-9/11 ID Law, Giving Cards To Illegal Immigrants That Mirror Licenses

By William La Jeunesse, Jessica Miller

Driver's licenses providing backdoor for illegal immigrants? Never autoplay videos After the 9/11 attacks, Congress passed the REAL ID Act to prevent foreign nationals from fraudulently obtaining a U.S. driver's license -- by requiring that any ID issued based on unverifiable foreign documents look different in "design or color" from an official driver's license.

That way, TSA and other law enforcement would know the ID holder might not be who they say they are.

But more than a decade later, several state and local governments are openly flouting the law, issuing ID cards that are barely distinguishable from a bona fide driver's license. That means those with mere ID cards, like illegal immigrants, might be able to pass off their cards as a driver's license at the airport and elsewhere -- creating a huge gap in security.

Examples include Washington, D.C., and Colorado.

For card-holders in the nation's capital, a small star in the corner is the only visual cue that distinguishes a D.C. license from a mere ID card.

[VeniVidiVici]

I say we all go get licenses from D.C.

[Cheerio]

Never Ever - all you need to register to vote in AZ is a driver’s license. These folk are not here legally no matter what our Lord and Savior says to the kool aid drinking gullible worshipers of his.