Licenses as IDs at airports questioned WASHINGTON Federal officials and lawmakers raised serious concerns Tuesday about the continued use of driver's licenses at airports and U.S. borders in light of California's new law allowing illegal immigrants to obtain the widely accepted means of identification. "If driver's licenses are given to people who are illegally in the country, then that puts extra burdens and difficulties on our inspectors at the border," Hutchinson said. "If you don't have integrity in the driver's licenses that are issued, then it really undermines the whole premise of allowing U.S. citizens to travel abroad and come back with limited proof of U.S. citizenship, without a passport." The wisdom of using driver's licenses for identification was also questioned Tuesday in a congressional watchdog report that found that fraudulent licenses are passing muster at airports, border crossings and motor-vehicle offices. The full report by the General Accounting Office has been classified for security reasons. But in public testimony prepared for the Senate Finance Committee, Robert Cramer, director of GAO's office of special investigations, warned about relying on driver's licenses for identification. Davis had refused to sign such a law before, citing homeland security concerns. His about-face was questioned by some as a move to garner support in the Latino community. excerpts from http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=56388§ion=NEWS&subsection=NEWS&year=2003&month=9&day=10