unintended consequences: Davis recall leads to US internal passports

[Tim May]

On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 09:38  AM, Major Variola (ret.) 
wrote:

> 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."

There has never been any "integrity" (in OS/capabilities/verification 
terms) in the driver's license issuance. Not in any of the three states 
I have requested and gotten DLs in has there ever been the slightest 
attempt to verify who I say I am (lacking is-a-person credentials, this 
would be difficult anyway).

>
> 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.
>

Our first Mexican governor expects to add an estimated 525,000 former 
illegal aliens to the Democrap voter base in California.

BTW, having briefly volunteered at a "register to vote" table a while 
back, I can assure you all that we never asked for any ID whatsoever 
upon taking the completed forms, that many of those who registered were 
obviously too recent in arrival in the U.S. to be legally qualifed to 
be citizens, let alone voters, and that many of those I "registered" 
(*) had essentially no knowledge of anything political.

(* I did not actually "register" them...that happens somewhere back 
when the form I collected from them is processed by the DP center and 
entered into the big computer. Do the staffers in Sacramento make 
efforts to verify addresses or to cross-check with Immigration and 
Naturalization? Do you want to buy a bridge? Once the forms are sent 
in, registration is a foregone conclusion.)

--Tim May