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If You Live In These States You'll Soon Need A Passport For Domestic Flights
Submitted by John Vibes via TheAntiMedia.org,
To comply with the 2005 Real ID Act, which the U.S. government has been slowly implementing for the past decade, citizens in a number of different U.S. states will now be forced to obtain a passport if they want to board an airplane - even for domestic flights.
The Department of Homeland Security and representatives with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection have declined to comment on why certain states have been singled out, but starting in 2016, residents of New York, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and American Samoa will need a passport to fly domestically. All other states will still be able to use their state-issued driver’s licenses and IDs — for now, at least.
According to the Department of Homeland Security’s guidelines on enforcement of the Real ID Act,
“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on December 20, 2013 a phased enforcement plan for the REAL ID Act (the Act), as passed by Congress, that will implement the Act in a measured, fair, and responsible way.
Secure driver’s licenses and identification documents are a vital component of our national security framework. The REAL ID Act, passed by Congress in 2005, enacted the 9/11 Commission’s recommendation that the Federal Government ‘set standards for the issuance of sources of identification, such as driver’s licenses.’ The Act established minimum security standards for license issuance and production and prohibits Federal agencies from accepting for certain purposes driver’s licenses and identification cards from states not meeting the Act’s minimum standards. The purposes covered by the Act are: accessing Federal facilities, entering nuclear power plants, and, no sooner than 2016, boarding federally regulated commercial aircraft.
States and other jurisdictions have made significant progress in enhancing the security of their licenses over the last number of years. As a result, approximately 70-80% of all U.S. drivers hold licenses from jurisdictions: (1) determined to meet the Act’s standards; or (2) that have received extensions. Individuals holding driver’s licenses or identification cards from these jurisdiction may continue to use them as before.
Individuals holding licenses from noncompliant jurisdictions will need to follow alternative access control procedures for purposes covered by the Act. As described below, enforcement for boarding aircraft will occur no sooner than 2016.”
According to the fine print, not all 50 states have driver’s licences that meet the Real ID requirements, which could possibly explain why the aforementioned regions will not qualify in 2016. However, there is no specific mention of what the requirements actually are.
The Real ID act has been controversial since its initial proposal over ten years ago and is seen by many as a massive violation of privacy. One of the primary reasons it has taken the government so long to roll this program out is that the program is wildly unpopular and creates heavy backlash every time it appears in the news.
The tightening of the Real ID restrictions are seemingly intended to push people towards attaining the newly issued “enhanced ID,” which adds more unnecessary paperwork and bureaucracy to the already tedious process involved in identification applications.
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Mexicans, who happen to have great taste and a world class cuisine .... just happen to crave American fast food .... KFC, Carls, Burger King, McDonalds, Domino's Pizza et al, Subway .... they even love Taco Bell .... the Mexican cultural Nazis frown on and put socialist hurdles in Taco Bell's way .... for the ordinary Mexicans Taco Bell is just another flattering variation .... not a cultural invasion ?
lol stfu btfd
you forgot LMAO
and Lulz, meme, SMH, hater, and all the other TwitterTwat asinine shit.
A few centuries ago a free peoples roamed and lived these lands. The 'heathen' were slowly rounded up, treated as cattle, fenced off and forced to move in herds when their properties were judged to be above the worth of the inhabitants.
They called one of these journeys the herd was made to endure the Trail of Tears for many died along the way. This is the history of the so called USA and it is starting to happen today to the descendents of the herders.
Karma is a bitch aint it?
Well, if nothing else, I guess all those Truck Weigh Stations that have sat unused for decades near state borders (at least here in Texas) can quickly be converted to Documentation Checkpoints. Think of all the jobs this will create!
Oh, no, right - it'll be automated probably. Ah well, missed opportunity.
Why do I feel like this is the perfect opprotunity to fly the confederate flag?
Not only a groping but a passport to.
See the book, "Battlefield America" by John W. Whitehead
CA has issued licenses to millions of illegal aliens, they don't verify paperwork with anchor baby oversight.
But because there is no law that mandates you to give up your Social Security Number to any one but Social Security, New Hampsire Citizens can opt to leave it off thier drivers licence.
So Fuck You DHS and your NAZI DICTATES!
NH RSA - Title 55 Section 541-A:22
III. An agency shall not by rule:
(h) Require a submission of a social security number unless mandated by state or federal law.
Dive deeper:
http://thenewsdoctors.com/tsa-demands-internal-passport-for-domestic-travel/
...and sorry for the horriblly slow page load delays on TND. It will be fixed soon.
I moved to Nevada from New York. Applied for a driver's license. Showed them my NY State Driver's license. Not good enough. They needed my birth certificate. In NY you can legally change your name without going through the court system. I had changed my name 30 years ago. (Changed it to the name I had been known by ever since I was born, which differed from the name on my BC)
In order to get my "Real ID" Driver's License in Nevada I had to change my name through the NY State court system. Luckily, I still had a NY address and an attorney in NY. It cost me $2,000 to get a court order changing my name.
Meanwhile, if I had been a Mexican "dreamer" ... No problema!
So...If I'm arrested and charged with a federal crime, I won't be allowed to enter a federal prison without a passport or an approved REAL ID? Good.
So...If I'm arrested and charged with a federal crime, I won't be allowed to enter a federal prison without a passport or an approved REAL ID? Good.
I am perfectly fine. I self-identify as a Chosenite.
2016 is over 3 months away. Has anyone seen any evidence of this being implemented? It can take 30-60 dayys to get a passport. I have not seen any signs in airports or otherwise advising the people in those states they need to have passports come 2016. None of the airlines that I am aware of are alerting people to this. Have I missed the alerts?
I've been back + across the Montreal/Canadian border 3x by car. NH resident.
When I come back "home" - I'm struck by the phalanx of huge, eye-level cameras everywhere, the flash of white light indicating they photographed you, the light interrogation disguised as pleasant chit-chat. "Oh, you went up for x.....nice. So what was the name of the event you attended? Do you have paperword indicating you attended it?"
I always take my driver's licence and passport, just as backup. This last time though they told me my NH driver's license was not adequate for crossing the border because it wasn't an "enhanced licence." (Had never heard that before.)
Meanwhile I can't help think if the bizarreness of it all: I'm a U.S. citizen, and I must be photographed, questioned, maybe my bumpers knocked (to see if I'm carrying contraband). I must have proof of why I went over the border (printed out reservations, tickets to events, etc.) or face further scrunity. Hell, if I don't have a passport apparently I can't even get back into my own country. Meanwhile, non-citizens pour over the border free-style. What bozo thinks this Canadian treatment is keeping our country "safe"?
sorry comrade, things have changed a little bit in The States since 1990...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8JW75Lv25k&t=0m22s
succession will happen at some piont in time just a matter of when
Sowe are destabilizing middle east nations that we used to get along with, and now our Federal Government is putting pressures on historically liberal states? Almost like we were trying to get mass migration going to dilute other populations.... Silly me... that would never happen.
A sign I noted somewhere in the bitterroot range in Idaho. "Welcome to Idaho we have three seasons: winter, spring and SMOKE!
Well, from what I have that is true. I saw a mountain on fire and no one seemed too concerned. I have not seen many cops here either. The way the idahoans drive through the mountains has to be seen to be believed because they don't fuck around. Passing around hairpin corners at 80 mph with a thousand foot cravasse on one side and sheer rock wall on the does NOT bother them.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
Captain Ramius: Yes.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: No papers?
Captain Ramius: No papers, state to state.
Great post Santa! My, how far down the rabbit hole we have fallen.
Another clue that we have swapped places with Russia and are going full Soviet: Internal Passports.
Radio/Sonar Operator Jones: CRAZY IVAN!!!!!
Learn the law people. Govern-mental = Control the mind. I've beat traffic tickets in two states because I bothered to learn the law. Basically no harm no foul.
I will then choose not to fly domestically... pretty simple.