They’ve been taking the thumbs from each hand for nearly 2 decades now.
Said it was biometrics.
Never have let me pick of a replacement license just by scanning my fingers. Never have scanned my fingers as a matter of procedure to confirm ID.
They always require me to provide 2 forms of ID (a social security card and either birth certificate or a passport).
Obama never had to do this to become president.
The 300,000 illegal aliens don’t have to do this.
Doesn’t pay to be a citizen anymore.
They are building a “suspects” list for persons who’ve never been charged with a crime to accuse random strangers in “cold cases”. Whatever it takes to clear the books even if there is no evidence to place a person at the scene or a crime than a cigarette butt or some other thing that could be planted by a criminal.
Some states have compliant licenses, some are moving in that direction, and some are opposed and some are opposed because it is an unfunded mandate and some because of civil liberty issues.
Real ID originated with the 9-11 commission, but as you touched on, it is also about illegal workers.
Part of "comprehensive immigration reform" is expanding the guest worker programs so they will have to have a tamper proof id, but that won't work unless the natives also have tamper proof id. Supposedly these types of IDs can not be faked so the illegals will not have access to them.
Citizen = Prisoner of the Controlled System
At least this is becoming more and more true recently....