Americans are sheep and they deserve what they get.
What about BORDER security (both S and N)?!!! Or is this just more BIG Federal Govt BS!!!!!!!!
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Predictably me Rep voted nyet.
This scares me a little. Please let me explain why before flaming me. (Please note, I stated it 'scares me'; not that I strongly oppose this).
1.) 4 Forms of ID are a little hard to get. Birth Certificate, Social Security Card, Passport and what else? A Library Card?? Visa card?
2.) It starts with a Birth Certificate; which can be forged or received from a deceased infant. Births and Deaths are not handled by the same department in every locality. From there we simply start creating a false record, applying for a Social Security card, then a passport, and finally the driver's license.
3.) Drivers Licences are not impossible to forge. One could argue that they are relatively easy to forge; and yes, they are sold in the streets in Mexico.
4.) What are we trying to accomplish here? We have open borders, police are not allowed to even ask if you are here legally.
5.) Instead of making the driver's licence more difficult to forge by adding biometrics, DNA or other information; we have been forced to stick with plastic and a photo.
Thus, other than inconveniencing the population at large; this appears to be a lot of wasted effort.
Some concessions were made allowing states to issue "driving certificates" that do not meet the national requirements, but they would not be valid for official purposes.
Sounds like a grey area without much difference. Kind of like the debate over civil ceremonies and marriage. All this will do is strengthen the authority of these "driving certificates" proving one step closer to handing out a license to an illegal.
The rest doesn't impress, but As licenses were meant to be the primary issue I see no cause for celebration.
BUMPs
Many states simply don't have the money to help build this huge electronic database.
Once again, a grossly underfunded mandate is being put upon the states by the federal government.
Americans are sheep and they deserve what they get.
EXPEDITES COMPLETION OF U.S./MEXICO BORDER FENCE
We are past "FENCE" we need double concrete walls, topped with 16 ft high chain link fence, faced and topped with razor wire and land mines between the walls! This should be done North and South!
Great. The idea that illegals should have licenses identical to those of citizens should never have even been proposed. However, I am in favor of giving illegals driving licenses very different in appearance from regular licenses -- in order to keep tabs on their whereabouts.
True conservatives believe in the free movement of peoples, unhindered by interference from an Imperial government.
I've always believed that "neo-con(servative)" described former Democrats like Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley who found home in the Republican party due to its strong stance against international Communism. The recent descriptions of neo-con as some kind of new facist seems to be more true everyday.
A pox on the houses of all who would grow the government in the name of "national security". FAH!
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INCREASE FOR AUSTRALIAN WORKERS: About 10,500 Australian guestworkers will be allowed to enter the country annually under terms similar to the H-1B high-tech visa category.<<<
This is fine with me. It is not Aussies who are invading this Country, it's Mexicans.