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Passports for domestic air travel may be required in some states.

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This is to bring states into compliance with the standards required by the 2005 Real ID Act, so far only 27 US states are compliant with the Real ID Act.


They were previously allowed to use mere driving licenses.

But residents of some US states will soon require additional ID, such as passports, if they wish to embark on air travel - even if just domestically.

That's the new procedure on the horizon for people from states that have not yet introduced the standards required by the 2005 Real ID Act, which demands stricter regulations for state-issued IDs.

The states that haven't yet fallen into line each now have a grace period of three months to meet the revised criteria.

This deadline expires on 22 January 2018.

Travellers from states that miss the deadline will risk being detained at airport security and prevented from boarding flights if they don't have a passport or other TSA-approved form of identification, such as a green card, border crossing card or military ID.

This includes both international and domestic journeys.

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Americans may soon need a passport for domestic flights | Daily Mail Online
 
California issuing look alike drivers licenses to illegal aliens doesn't help, not to mention harboring illegal alien felons from deportation.
 
It lists CT as compliant, and yet, I'm flying to FL in 2 weeks, no passport needed.
 
The issuing of drivers licenses to undocumented people has zero effect on this. Does everything have to be political?
 
California issuing look alike drivers licenses to illegal aliens doesn't help, not to mention harboring illegal alien felons from deportation.

And here we see the real motivation for this stupidity. It's not actually to prevent terrorists from boarding airplanes. It's to make obtaining a legal piece of identification as hard as possible. This goes hand in hand with requiring ids to vote. They want to make it as difficult as possible for poor urban people, young people and old people to obtain id then require that id to vote knowing those blocks of people are the most likely to vote Democrat. In order to force states to move toward the more complicated IDs they require them to fly. That motivates more upper middle class whites to push their states to adopt the standards they're demanding.

I recently moved to South Carolina, who doesn't even have the higher standards yet, and it still took me four hour long trips to a DMV over the course of a month and a half to get my SC drivers license. Guess who couldn't get registered to vote in time for last years primaries? If I didn't have a decent job that allowed me to duck out early to go to the DMV, and access to a car I probably would have just given up trying. The hoops you have to jump through for this **** are ridiculous, and completely unnecessary.
 
It lists CT as compliant, and yet, I'm flying to FL in 2 weeks, no passport needed.

Eh... That's because both states meet the 2005 Real ID Act, as in compliant with the act, so no passport will required. And for the states that are not compliant, they have until January 2018 to become so.
 
And here we see the real motivation for this stupidity. It's not actually to prevent terrorists from boarding airplanes. It's to make obtaining a legal piece of identification as hard as possible. This goes hand in hand with requiring ids to vote. They want to make it as difficult as possible for poor urban people, young people and old people to obtain id then require that id to vote knowing those blocks of people are the most likely to vote Democrat. In order to force states to move toward the more complicated IDs they require them to fly. That motivates more upper middle class whites to push their states to adopt the standards they're demanding.

I recently moved to South Carolina, who doesn't even have the higher standards yet, and it still took me four hour long trips to a DMV over the course of a month and a half to get my SC drivers license. Guess who couldn't get registered to vote in time for last years primaries? If I didn't have a decent job that allowed me to duck out early to go to the DMV, and access to a car I probably would have just given up trying. The hoops you have to jump through for this **** are ridiculous, and completely unnecessary.

So are you advocating just telling the police officer you are who you say you are and having an ID is a violation of your rights?
 
Eh... That's because both states meet the 2005 Real ID Act, as in compliant with the act, so no passport will required. And for the states that are not compliant, they have until January 2018 to become so.

Ah, I misunderstood. I thought compliant meant requiring passports.
 
So are you advocating just telling the police officer you are who you say you are and having an ID is a violation of your rights?

Yes, actually. Unless you are trying to drive a car, or buy alcohol there is absolutely no legitimate reason for you to be forced to carry a photo id. If you commit a serious crime you are fingerprinted for identification purposes anyway making your id largely irrelevant.
 
So are you advocating just telling the police officer you are who you say you are and having an ID is a violation of your rights?

Unless you are driving a car a license doesn't matter at all... and unless you are being arrested you do not have to provide information about who you are and they would find that out anyway when your are fingerprinted. ID's are generally irrelevant and vaguely fascist.
 
Big Brother is here, and he's going to help you! :cool:
 
So are you advocating just telling the police officer you are who you say you are and having an ID is a violation of your rights?
Right, unless of course you wish to purchase a firearm. :rolleyes:
 
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