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Federal ID

Letter to the editor;

Congress shouldn’t try to fix the REAL ID Act. They should just repeal it.

Here is my prediction of the horrible future to be inflicted on us by this Act.

Year One: Real-ID goes into effect. It is very easy to acquire the card, and 99% of those who apply get it the first or second time. You can still do anything without it.

Year Two: It is harder to get the card. Still, over half of those who apply receive one. Those who don't have a card are not allowed on airplanes. That’s all.

Year Three: It is practically impossible for adults to get the card. If they didn't get one already, there is a presumption that they must not be who they say. Those who don't have the card are not allowed to board a plane, a train or an inter-city bus. They are not allowed to start a bank account nor to apply for a job.

Year Four: It is finally, totally, absolutely impossible for about one in a thousand Americans to get the card. This is to say, about three hundred thousand Americans become “unpersons” -- reduced to scrounging out of dumpsters for food and clothing, and to sleeping in cardboard boxes.

Real-ID is not a problem to be fixed. It is an abomination to be repealed.

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona