Community | May 26, 2010 | 11 comments

Real ID Act of 2005 - Yesterday's Law, Today’s Problem

source: http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?p=3535

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shanklinmike
By David P Shirk

A third of the people seem to be indifferent to the laws and simply think of them as a mere annoyance. These people mostly accept the idea of laws as a necessary evil. Another third wholeheartedly support the laws, and constantly seek to make new ones to fit their idea of how the world should be. The last third are people who are sick of the restrictive laws as their daily lives continue to get more and more difficult to live in a legal manner. Depending on how observant and researched the people are typically determines which side they take.
An example of this is found in an act of legislation called the REAL ID ACT of 2005. Originally passed through congress as HR 418, it never made it past the Committee on the Judiciary. So it was merely scaled down, placed into the more popular HR 1268 under division II, and viola – it became the law.
Under Title I of the law, it removed exclusive power from the Attorney General in regards to granting asylum, and granted joint power to the Secretary of Homeland Securi.......

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11 comments // Real ID Act of 2005 - Yesterday's Law, Today’s Problem

  • 21stCC
    • 0
      21stCC  

    • " They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. "
      - Benjamin Franklin-

    • 1 year ago
  • remanns
    • -2
      remanns  

    • That ID card if it works would go a long way toward curbing the import of illegal labor. I for one am more than willing to make the trade off.

    • 1 year ago
  • davids80
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      davids80  
    • remanns:

      Remanns,
      How will it stop illegal labor? It has never done so in the past, and will not do so in the future. In the states that have had the policy for years already, it has not helped curb illegal labor in the slightest, so other then being a major cost and production burden, where do you get the idea that it is helping anything? If you can find a valid report or anything to back your point, then I really would like to know because I have yet to find anything even remotely making such claims.
      In addition, You state that you see it as worth the trade off. This little portion of the bill it was passed through cost 12 billion all on its own - and that was before half of the states adopted it as of 2008. So if you want to pay that 12 billion so that my taxes do not have too, then be my guest, until then, please stop supporting programs that cost so much, and you have so little an understanding of. Thanks :-)

    • 1 year ago
  • jubal
  • TruthBTold
    • +5
      TruthBTold  

    • This law does more harm than good, it is going to be a bureaucratic nightmare to enforce, it is also threatening to individual privacy, it will make citizens increasingly vulnerable to ID theft, and its going to cost taxpayers $ Millions in five years because of the massive unfunded federal mandates on all the states.

    • 1 year ago
  • JohnGalt
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      JohnGalt [removed]  

    • Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

    • 1 year ago
  • critic
  • Sw3rv
  • davids80
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      davids80  
    • Sw3rv:

      It has already been adopted by most states, and the few left who have not followed it have until the end of the year. It was not immediately noticeable by the people because of its 5 year implementaion period - just like the new healthcare bill. So at the time, no one even noticed, yet now that its side effects are starting to show, people are justifiably pissed off.

    • 1 year ago
  • shanklinmike
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