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I have no love for the Trump administration or its immigration policy, but the Real ID Act was passed in 2005 and the TSA announced compliance deadlines in 2013

• asveikau 7y ago
  I remember real ID being called controversial in 2005. I wonder if that might have something to do with the fact that it took them ~15 years before somebody said "yes, we're really doing it this year". See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_ID_Act#Controversy_and_opposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_ID_Act#Controversy_and_op...
  • hapless 7y ago
    REAL ID is the exact kind of thing Americans used to mock in the Soviet Union. “Papers, please”
  • nitrogen 7y ago
    What turned the tide on states' acceptance of RealID?
    • URSpider94 7y ago
      Most likely, the Federal government sticking to its deadline on barring acceptance of non-REAL licenses for air travel ...
    • masonic 7y ago
      No more Obama administration to grant exemptions to blue states.
      • deleted 7y ago
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• hapless 7y ago
  This isn’t a REAL ID matter. REAL ID is orthogonal. NYS is refusing access to their “normal” non-REAL ID databases, and it bothers someone in the executive branch. Notably, for Global Entry, you already need a passport - which supersedes the ID value of your state DL in every imaginable way No NYS applicant is asking the federal government to rely on a drivers license. The government has just chosen to tie other things to the drivers license to further their own private tantrums