The REAL ID Act Ten Years Later

WASHINGTON, May 11, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ —  May 11, 2015 marks 10 years since President George W. Bush signed the REAL ID Act into law. REAL ID was intended to carry out key recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, which revealed that our nation’s permissive system of issuing driver’s licenses was a glaring vulnerability that was exploited by the terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

 

“Today, not only are less than half of states compliant, but a growing number of them have enacted legislation to put licenses in the hands of illegal aliens, a practice that is thoroughly antithetical to the 9/11 Commission recommendations,” said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). “From a national security standpoint, it is fair to say we are regressing, not progressing even as terrorist threats mount.”

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