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On this date in 2008, the REAL ID Act was supposed to go into effect. It didn’t. And it still isn’t in full effect to this day. Last December, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) extended the enforcement deadline yet again for two more years,...
WASHINGTON (Dec. 7, 2022) – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has extended the enforcement deadline for REAL ID Act of 2005. Again. On Monday, the DHS announced it would not begin enforcing REAL ID requirements until May 2025. After fifteen years of...
National ID cards have been atop the command-and-control political wish list for decades. In the 1990s, Republican Congresses shot down efforts to move toward national identification cards. However, after 9/11, “everything changed” and politicians seized the chance to...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has extended the enforcement deadline for REAL ID. Again. This time, coronavirus serves as the excuse, but this is just of many extensions, delays and waivers that litter the history of this ill-conceived federal ID system....
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is graciously willing to instruct states on how to implement plans to enforce the REAL ID statute requirements that go into force on October 2020. One of the suggestions being offered to states is the creation of online...
“Your papers, please.” What image just came into your head? Something straight out of Casablanca? A jack-booted, uniform-clad, Nazi stopping someone on the street? Well, a similar scene is about to be played out in the airports of the United States of America. What...