The only reason this is a big deal is because he, along with Atta, were pulled over. Atta was pulled over in Florida and cited for driving without a license. So he and all the other terrorists in Fla. went and got valid Fla. licenses. In the meantime, Atta skipped his court hearing and had a bench warrant out for him up to Sept. 11. The point is that it is too easy for any foreign national to get a U.S. ID/drivers license which is used as a primary ID document.
The trooper didn't have access to all the information necessary.
Now, you may have read the earlier thread today - 6,000 M.E. men who have final deportation orders or who skipped their deportation hearings are the first of the 300,000 going into the FBI NCIC database, which local/state police have access to.
This should probably be expanded to include all visa overstayers, except of course the INS is so incompetent they have already blown through about $40 million trying to develop a computer system that can let them know who has overstayed their visas. Several of the Sept. 11 hijackers had overstayed (including Atta). I don't know if this guy was one of them, but if he was there was no way for that trooper to know it, and there likely won't be a way for police to know for several years, at least.
I won't be happy until they add ALL the illegals from north and especially south of the border too.