What is your opinion of the Real ID Act?

Question

JBS7878, I agree 100% with your answer.

We should be a country of public government and private citizens, not the other way around.

Rainshine, you sound like a racist. I said nothing about immigration. However, it is a crime. Just like stealing, or killing. I don't care what race you are if you commit a crime, you should be punished for it. However, I don't think the government should be enacting Orwellion laws like this to stop immigration. The laws we have are fine, they just need to be enforced.

Answer 1

actually, many states are rejecting the real id act believing that it does more harm than good, it would be a nightmare to enforce, it is threatening to individual privacy and it makes people more vulnerable to id theft.



"Utah unanimously passed a resolution which opposes the REAL ID Act[. The resolution states that REAL ID is "in opposition to the Jeffersonian principles of individual liberty, free markets, and limited government." It further states that "the use of identification-based security cannot be justified as part of a 'layered' security system if the costs of the identification 'layer'--in dollars, lost privacy, and lost liberty--are greater than the security identification provides."

Why don't we just all line up and have little microchips put into our necks.

Answer 2

It's another federal regulation.

It is not what most people think it is. It is not a federal ID card.
I wish people would read the bloody laws before forming opinions about them.

The Real ID Act sets forth the standards for what a state-issued ID card (like most of us have anyway) would need have before that ID card would be recognized as valid by federal officers or for federal purposes.

The primary requirement is a shared database, which allows the personal information of the person to be checked quickly by comparing the information on the state-issued card with what's in the database. The idea is to prevent forged IDs.

The main problem with it that opponents have is that the federal database would be a prime target for identity theft scams, and that increases the risk of massive identify theft.

Overall, the law doesn't provide enough benefits to warrant the risks inherent in it. That's my opinion.

Answer 3

America has always been a free country. This is not a totalitarian regime where authorities can demand "Your papers, please!" of citizens.

REAL ID creates a NATIONWIDE database that will make your personal information (photo, birth date, SSN, home address, driving record, biometric data, etc.) available to the federal government -- and every other state.

My state is one of 2 where the state has voted against REAL ID (Idaho is the other one) and will not use it. The NH Senate voted against it unanimously.

REAL ID is a bureaucratic nightmare. It is an unfunded mandate. That means the cost is passed on to the taxpayers in each state through fees and increased local taxes.

It is an accident waiting to happen...

Answer 4

We have a real ID, it's called your social security number.

The REAL ID Act of 2005 is Division B of an act of the United States Congress titled Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005, Pub.L. 109-13, 119 Stat. 231, enacted 2005-05-11). This legislation was intended to deter terrorism by implementing the following:
Establishing national standards for state-issued driver's licenses and non-driver's identification cards;
Waiving laws that interfere with construction of physical barriers at the borders;
Updating and tightening the laws on application for asylum and deportation of aliens for terrorist activity;
Introducing rules covering "delivery bonds" (rather like bail bonds but for aliens who have been released pending hearings);
Funding some reports and pilot projects related to border security; and
Changing visa limits for temporary workers, nurses, and Australian citizens.

Answer 5

I think that creating more restrictions trying to lock human beings out of a better honest living is bad. I hate the fact that Racist White Americans feel that they are the original inhabitants of America when really the Native Ameriycans are. Sure it's true that there are immigrants who commit crimes but the majority of them are hardworking people who I respect and admire. How many White Americans commit crimes and yet don't take the rap of being "criminals " like minorities do. Immigrants bring a vibrance, a life force and a desire to make it that americans have long lost with their arrogance and feelings of entitlement. I also feel that we have real national issues to tackle like poverty ,education and healthcare rather thna spending tax dollars on warehousing drug offenders and a huge WAR budget. we have a lot to think about as a nation

Answer 6

Just another boondoggle that the Govt can privatize so that the corps can make some bucks.

Answer 7

I think it stinks, and if I could afford to, I would definitely move to a state that has already rejected it. I hope that all states reject it. I believe it is just one of the NWO countless ways of attempting to control the masses. *sm*

Answer 8

Is just a standard for state drivers licenses. Some how it has become an urban legend about government satellites tracking our movements.

Answer 9

Please tell me more about the Real ID ACT please.

Answer 10

"Papers please! Schnell! Schnell!"