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If You Live in These States You’ll Soon Need a Passport for Domestic Flights
thefederalistpapers.org ^ | september 20, 2015 | brittany soares

Posted on 09/22/2015 2:16:06 PM PDT by lowbridge

If you don’t have a passport already, you may need to get one soon.

Residents of certain states are going to need to show their passports — rather than simply their IDs — even if they’re only flying domestic.

Yes, it will infringe upon states’ rights handed to them by the 10th Amendment and create unnecessary cost to taxpayers in order to implement the change, but let’s be real — the government doesn’t care about that.

From Zero Hedge:

To comply with the 2005 Real ID Act, which the U.S. government has been slowly implementing for the past decade, citizens in a number of different U.S. states will now be forced to obtain a passport if they want to board an airplane – even for domestic flights.

The Department of Homeland Security and representatives with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection have declined to comment on why certain states have been singled out, but starting in 2016, residents of New York, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and American Samoa will need a passport to fly domestically. All other states will still be able to use their state-issued driver’s licenses and IDs — for now, at least.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana; US: Minnesota; US: New Hampshire; US: New York; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: americansamoa; dhs; driverslicense; driverslicenses; flying; homelandsecurity; id; identification; ids; la; louisiana; minnesota; mn; newhampshire; newyork; nh; ny; passport; passports; realid; realidact; wi; wisconsin
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To: lowbridge

Wonder if my military dependent ID will be acceptable. I could swear the last time I was at the DMV they offered the federal ID. I just needed to bring in my birth certificate.


81 posted on 09/23/2015 10:19:01 AM PDT by ozaukeemom (Is there even a republic left?)
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To: lowbridge

Good to know that those of us in Mexico’s northernmost state, California, are still okay.


82 posted on 09/23/2015 10:21:41 AM PDT by Pelham (Immigration is the 3rd world invasion. Deport them all)
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To: forgotten man
California and all states giving drivers licenses and identification cared to illegal aliens should be on that list.

We don' need no stinking passports!!


83 posted on 09/23/2015 10:24:36 AM PDT by Pelham (Immigration is the 3rd world invasion. Deport them all)
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To: SkyDancer

Inadequate security features on State-issued ID


84 posted on 09/24/2015 6:58:44 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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To: Ready4Freddy

Washington state has holographic images in the background that you can’t see until you light it up with a special blue light used in airports. Same with my crew badge.


85 posted on 09/24/2015 7:30:15 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: afraidfortherepublic
According to the wikipedia page on the REAL ID Act Wisconsin is in compliance.
86 posted on 09/25/2015 1:13:29 PM PDT by Monitor ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it." - H. L. Mencken)
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To: lowbridge

You people worry too much about nothing.


87 posted on 09/25/2015 1:27:50 PM PDT by freedomtrail (EEOC- Eventual Elimination Of Caucasians)
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To: Monitor

I don’t know how. Nobody ever asked to see my birth certificate to get a driver’s license. Or, my SS card.


88 posted on 09/26/2015 9:34:41 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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