I’m probably in the minority here, but I’ve never understood why we need an ID to get on an airplane. It was not required until suddenly in 1996, they started asking for an ID at the airport.
And what good is the Real ID act, when there are some some states which give drivers licenses to illegal aliens? How the heck is that states drivers license any sort of verification that this person is an American citizen, and how does that show that the state has tightened standards for issuing ID? Clearly they have instead loosened standards if known illegals can get a drivers license anyway.
And what of foreign visitors and travelers? I assume that Mohammed Atta and his boys used their foreign passports as their ID.
Has the Real ID act really achieved the goal of making sure a government issued ID in this country is valid and goes only to an American citizen????
Has the Real ID act really achieved the goal of making sure a government issued ID in this country is valid and goes only to an American citizen????
Obviously NO. Is this failure a fault of the Real ID Act (i.e., did Congress fail to include effective language and means to enforce the law?), or of Presidential failure to enforce the law? (The same way Obama omits to enforce Immigration laws). The Feds routinely find ways to force anything they want on States, through threatening to withhold federal $$$$. Odd that States openly flaunt Real ID, which involves interstate commerce that the Federal Government has Constitutional powers to regulate, with impunity.
The main reason this was passed was so that folks couldn't do things like buy a round-trip ticket, and give/sell it to someone else, or buy a ticket using your frequent flier miles, and sell it to someone else. It's all about money. Safety and 'security' have nothing whatsoever to do with it. Of course the additional control it gives the ferals in DC is just icing on the cake as far as they are concerned.