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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Homeland Security DELAYS nationwide rollout of Real ID for another two years because of the 'lingering effects of COVID'
2022-12-06
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Real ID regulations were supposed to go into effect nationwide in May 2023

  • States now have until 2025 'to address the lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ability to obtain a REAL ID' identification card

  • It will be necessary to board domestic flights and enter federal facilities

  • Both the right-wing Cato Institute and left-wing American Civil Liberties Union oppose Real ID and claim it's an invasion of privacy

  • The measure was first supposed to go into effect in 2008, as a legislative response to the September 11 terror attacks
Related:
Real ID: 2020-02-06 Homeland Security Suspends Enrollment of New Yorkers in Global Entry
Real ID: 2019-10-31 U.S. airports will soon begin turning away flyers without upgraded ID
Real ID: 2009-03-28 Anybody Can Get a Driver's License in Maryland!
Posted by:Skidmark

#6  How many times and for how many years has this been delayed now? Time just to throw in the towel.

I live in a state whose driver's licenses DHS deems to be unworthy (for whatever reason.) I'm getting tired of the charade.
Posted by: Tom   2022-12-06 14:16  

#5  This could actually be brilliant. The right wants voter ID. The left wants an intrusive way to track everyone. Get folks to connect the dots and demand Real ID be used for votes (just do it after the next election so the Dems have sealed their graft in before hand.).
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-12-06 08:49  

#4  What a joke.
Posted by: Too Old To Work   2022-12-06 07:43  

#3  Uhhhh Cato is libertarian at best.
Posted by: Frank G   2022-12-06 07:05  

#2  Guv mantra: "It will really, really, really work this time and not effect your liberties!"
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2022-12-06 06:14  

#1  Both the right-wing Cato Institute and left-wing American Civil Liberties Union oppose Real ID and claim it's an invasion of privacy

On the other hand it'll make deportations that much easier when either Trump or Desantis is elected President in 2024, which is probably why they made up this bullshit excuse.
Posted by: Raj   2022-12-06 00:29  

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