The agency announced on Monday it will begin enforcing the more stringent identification requirement on May 7, 2025, after previously setting a deadline of May 3, 2023. The announcement marks DHS’s third extension.
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I've been putting off getting my driver's license updated if for no other reason I'd have to travel to a neighboring county to get it because Macon County doesn't have a DMV, but my license expires next year anyway.
This is what you'd expect from a tyrant.
ReplyDeleteDon't get me wrong, I have never been in support of Real ID (or any ID for domestic travel). But this two year delay shows how capricious the whole thing is. Its government saying jump, the people jump; government says, sit, the people (some of them) say WTF?
Probably because it will be a massive blow to the Dem's claim it is racist to require ID to vote when every Jamal and Shaniqua has no problem producing one that proves legal residence to fly. It also gives someone a quick way to know how many voters are actually alive vs. on the rolls..
ReplyDeleteReal ID makes it harder for illegals to register to vote.
DeletePres. Election in '04 - I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
DeleteCC
Just get a passport...it is fairly painless, can usually be done through your post office, and beside allowing you to thumb your nose at the whole program, it opens a whole realm of potential travel.
ReplyDeleteA passport or passcard serves the same purpose and is easier to get.
ReplyDeleteMy passport must say check this guy because every time I use it, I am detained. Once, coming back from Ireland, I sat at LAX in a make shift room of curtained walls and a single metal folding chair for six, count em, six hours.
DeleteMy wife was ignored, not told my whereabouts, certainly not not my detainment.
She had actually left the terminal thinking I had gone on ahead (!?)
None of the four men in identical black suits would so much speak to me (after saying, Come this way, sit here)
They took my wallet, car keys, PP.
Five years later, at RDU, two years after that at BOS, one year after that at SBA and PHX, again at MSP, DEN, FAT. Drop your belt, lift your sack, turn around and bend over. Oh, and LAX to HNL, two times.
Notice, except for Ireland and UK, all have been domestic flights. Random searches, uh huh. Pull the other finger. At RDU, THREE Asecindary searches while standing in the same effing line to board!
At least the fat black woman at MSP was kindhearted about it.
That PP must be a scarlet letter. Yes, I am required flight crew Part 135.
New deadline right after the election, gotta get those fraudulent ballots out.
ReplyDeleteDing ding, winner winner chicken dinner!
DeleteI bet you have a Post Office nearby.
ReplyDeleteIf your post office takes passport applications, a passport qualifies as a Real ID. Then you also have the option to pass the border into Canada, Mexico, or almost any other sh*thole, almost anywhere else in the world. This is in addition to the benefits of a Real ID, such as entering Federal buildings, flying on commercial airlines. You also have the freedom to not travel, not fly, and not go into a Federal building, as you choose.
Geek
*benefits*
DeleteSon, you've sucked the Kool Aid so long your cheeks are purple.
Oh yes, the 'right' to not travel.
Are you fucking for real? Fuuuuuck
Geek is in the 1st wave of cannon fodder. Not merely his location, but that he deserves it.
DeleteThey need time to implement new innovations, such as vaccination status, political party, gun ownership, social media score, and gender identification.
ReplyDeleteJeez, Florida has been doing RealID since 2010. And we've managed to clean up our voter rolls, clean up election fraud at the voting place (still election fraud in ballot harvesting, fucking asshole democrats) and, well, been battling illegals hard for over 12 years.
ReplyDeleteWhat's so fucking hard about securing your state id system? Proof of citizenship, proof of actual birth, not a real hard thing to require.
Watch them tie getting Real ID with cleaning up elections.
ReplyDeleteAnd the coming Central Bank Digital Currency will be tied with restoring the destroyed economy.
Do not comply.
As remarked above, the delay is to avoid secure elections, as the proof of citizenship might delay putting illegal invaders on the voter rolls through the "Motor Voter" scams.
ReplyDeleteOf course, it is now starting to come out that the voter rolls are being falsified and used to send out absentee ballots to people who are registered to vote, but don't, at addresses other than theirs, and switching the addresses back after the ballots are sent, so that the absentee ballots can be voted by the thieves.
Neither "Party" wants to stop this. The Rs use it to defeat MAGA candidates in the primaries, while the DemonRats use it to steal the general elections.
NOTE: Both "Parties" are private corporations. They are small clubs, and the American voters are not allowed to be members.
John in Indy
When I moved to TN in 2012, there was a long list of documentation requirements for getting my driver's license. I passed first try; several of my friends (who don't know how to follow written directions) took two or three tries. When my renewal came up last time, I got the whole Real ID spiel. But, the documents that were required were exactly the same set that I had to present to get my original TN license.
ReplyDeleteOddly enough, in the original application I found out that there are 4 folks in the US that have my name and birth date that have been prohibited from acquiring driver's licenses. I had to argue with the idiot behind the desk and wait for 45 minutes while she consulted with her manager behind closed doors before she begrudgingly relented. What a royal PITA. And by the way, don't bother to book an appointment using the state's web site. They ignore it for purposes of actually processing your application material.