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California races to issue driver’s licenses that will work at airport security
Sacramento Bee ^ | May 12, 2017 | Jim Miller

Posted on 05/14/2017 9:10:10 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Facing the prospect of millions of Californians turned away at airport security checkpoints, the Brown administration is racing to bring the state’s driver’s licenses up to federal standards.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: aviation; california; identification
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They will have to present a birth certificate or other proof of birth and legal presence, two documents showing California residency, and proof of a Social Security number


So how will illegal aliens provide this?

1 posted on 05/14/2017 9:10:10 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

What illegal aliens?


2 posted on 05/14/2017 9:12:45 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: artichokegrower

So how will illegal aliens provide this?


Fake documents


3 posted on 05/14/2017 9:20:05 PM PDT by rdcbn (.... when Poets buy guns, tourist season is over ...)
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To: artichokegrower

I have never understood why we have the Real ID act.

Mohammed Atta and his boys were foreigners, so presumeably, their ID used was their foreign issued passport. We have no control over passports issued by foreign countries.

How does inconveniencing all of us with this law do anything to fight terrorism???

And since a number of states now give driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, a driver’s license, even allegedly secure under the terms of the Real ID act, cannot be said to be any sort of proof of citizenship.


4 posted on 05/14/2017 9:22:03 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The Real ID act was 2005. Atta and crew were before.


5 posted on 05/14/2017 9:26:34 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: artichokegrower
From link: "To get a new license, people will have to provide more documentation than required under the current system. They will have to present a birth certificate or other proof of birth and legal presence, two documents showing California residency, and proof of a Social Security number. Real ID licenses and identification cards also will bear special markings.
California’s Assembly Bill 60 in 2013 allowed undocumented immigrants to obtain licenses. Those cannot be used to board an airplane or enter a federal facility."

6 posted on 05/14/2017 9:31:52 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Trump "Mexico will pay for the Wall! Mark my words")
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To: artichokegrower

“Ok mamm, please straighten your burka so I can a better picture of your left eye.”


7 posted on 05/14/2017 9:41:08 PM PDT by Noob1999 (For)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The purpose of Real ID was to create pressure on the states to adopt a minimum and standard set of controls around government (state) issued ids. This could not be mandated by the federal government as this is a state’s right to issue documentation to their citizens.

However, by using the leverage of not accepting state ids that did not provide basic information to establish citizenship, states soon realized that conforming is easier than resisting. California is just a bit behind the curve. Also, by creating minimum standards for state issued ids, it now becomes a crime to submit fraudulent documents.


8 posted on 05/14/2017 9:46:48 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: artichokegrower

So the licenses issued will have to be reissued with more stringent controls. Will all the voter rolls fraudulently padded during motor votor registration be purged?


9 posted on 05/14/2017 9:55:53 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Some of them were also issued state id's. Each pilot received a Florida drivers license. Overall, 30 state id's were issued to the hijackers. I doubt any of the problems have been fixed.


10 posted on 05/14/2017 10:09:39 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I have never understood why we have the Real ID act.

Mohammed Atta and his boys were foreigners, so presumeably, their ID used was their foreign issued passport. We have no control over passports issued by foreign countries.

A foreign citizen does not have to show a passport to board a domestic flight. The 9/11 terrorists used state issued drivers' licenses to board their flights. Many states were quite sloppy about issuing drivers' licenses and ID cards to foreigners. For that matter, quite a number of US citizens have been issued drivers' licenses or ID's under assumed names. The REAL ID requirements make it much more difficult for people to get identifying documents under assumed names or even multiple assumed names, because of the biometric requirement. In Texas, we have to submit thumbprints as a biometric identifier. Trying to get another license under an assumed named would be damned near impossible. If one were to attempt, it would be quickly caught due to the thumbprints already on file for a different ID under a different name. The REAL ID Act is intended to strengthen up domestic ID's so that foreigners and terrorists can't get ID's under assumed names.

My wife got her Permanent Resident Alien card not long after we got married. First we had to apply for a change of status. Then we got a letter in the mail after a background search telling my wife to appear at a Homeland Security service center in San Antonio at a specified time on a specified date to submit biometric data. They took fingerprints from all 10 fingers and took an ID photo. Her passport information is linked to that application. In addition to the passport number, name, date of birth, date of issue, and date of expiration, they also copy all the visa and entrance and exit stamps. The State Department and Homeland Security want to document that applicants for permanent residency have a history of not overstaying visas. They want to see what countries the applicant has visited. After she got her permanent green card my wife applied for a Texas drivers' license. Before we were married, she applied for a temporary Texas driver's license good for one year. At that time she had to submit a certified copy and translation of her birth certificate as well as her passport and her foreign driver's license. For her regular license, she had to submit her permanent residency card and Social Security number in addition to all her previous documents plus she had to submit thumb prints.

11 posted on 05/14/2017 10:39:35 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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To: taxcontrol

But how does any of this matter, if states can give driver’s licenses to illegal aliens anyway?? How does a Real ID license establish citizenship when illegals are getting licenses in a number of states now?


12 posted on 05/14/2017 10:50:27 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: pfflier
Will all the voter rolls fraudulently padded during motor votor registration be purged?

They will just be added as new voters keeping the old ID, while getting a brand new one. Double the benefits, double the fun.

13 posted on 05/14/2017 11:00:23 PM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: artichokegrower

“We don’ need no stinking badges.”


14 posted on 05/14/2017 11:26:24 PM PDT by A strike (Television, and especially Madison Avenue is racist.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Thanks for a very informative post about the way the process is supposed to work.

Compare that to the process used on future terrorist actors—you watch—they will have skipped a few steps and somehow (snicker snicker) evaded law enforcement. :-(


15 posted on 05/15/2017 12:55:42 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Remember Atta had a drivers license? Don’t remember from which state. He was on a visa here, probably got the DL before his student or tourist visa had expired.


16 posted on 05/15/2017 1:10:17 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: sickoflibs

None of that matters as they can simply walk across the southern or northern border. Terrorists are probably here now since Obunghole let them in.


17 posted on 05/15/2017 3:39:40 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: artichokegrower
The land of fruits and nuts will obviously comply. The license on the left is for illegal aliens, the right for citizens:


18 posted on 05/15/2017 3:56:22 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: artichokegrower

Why should Californians fly to begin with? Don’t they understand the carbon footprint of jet air travel? With the internet, they really should not need to travel much at all. They can go by wagon train or horse carriage when necessary. I’m surprised the state hasn’t banned airports already.


19 posted on 05/15/2017 4:25:56 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: SpaceBar

Missouri is going through the same exercise.


20 posted on 05/15/2017 4:53:38 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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