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Janine Hansen www.nevadafamilies.org director@nevadafamilies.org

March 4, 2009 In the Year of Our Lord, 4:30pm

 Please forward to everyone you know!  Acknowledgement appreciated.

You can watch the Legislature live at: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/audio/AudioVideo.cfm

 

Today the State Senate voted to send SB52 to the Finance Committee!

 This is very good news! It means that the funding for REAL ID will have to be examined.  DMV said it had applied for grants from the Feds to pay for it, but they don’t have them yet.  If the grants aren’t forthcoming the State would have to pay for REAL ID and there’s no money in the budget. It could very well be that REAL ID will never get out of the Finance Committee. Let’s hope so!

 Thanks for your emails.  They have made all the difference! 

 Re: SB52 REAL ID

 

• REAL ID does not contain an RFID chip, but Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is looking at options for REAL ID like enhanced drivers licenses, passport cards or the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative as Washington State has adopted, which all contain an RFID chip.   http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/20/napolitano-debates-real-id/

 

• REAL ID is a backdoor or defacto national ID card. It requires the creation of a national computer network which will link state driver’s license databases, so that they can be accessed by all states and the federal government.

 

• REAL ID will store every driver’s personal information and photograph in this linked database. The specter of a National Identity card or an internal passport card is antagonistic to American liberty, violates privacy and is windfall for identity thieves.

 

• REAL ID provides substantial discretion to expand the scope of REAL ID. What will be required by the federal government in the future?  We have no assurances that at some point we won’t need REAL ID to open a bank account or purchase a gun.

 

• REAL ID will be required for Nevada residence to fly on a plane or enter a federal building including the U.S. Capitol to visit their Congressmen.  But, states like Montana who have passed laws prohibiting their state from participating in REAL ID have received exemptions for their residents who will be able to fly on a plane and enter a federal building without REAL ID. Why should citizens of Nevada be second class citizens?  The Nevada Legislature should refuse to participate in REAL ID and demand an exemption, like other states. 

 

• Ten states have refused to participate in REAL ID including:  Arizona, South Carolina, Montana, Washington, Idaho, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Georgia, Maine and New Hampshire. www.realnightmare.com

 

• Janet Napolitano the new Secretary of Homeland Security as Governor of Arizona signed a state law HB2677 in June of 2008 prohibiting Arizona from participating in REAL ID. “This state shall not participate in the implementation of the REAL ID act of 2005 (P.L. 109-13, Division B; 119 Stat. 302).  The department shall not implement the REAL ID act of 2005 and shall report to the governor and the legislature any attempt by agencies or agents of the United States DEPARTMENT of homeland security to secure the implementation of the REAL ID act of 2005 through the operations of the United States department of homeland security.” Will she now demand that Arizona violate its own law prohibiting Arizona’s participation in REAL ID?

 

• REAL ID will not stop illegal immigration, but it will make Americans and Nevadans who choose not to be subject to REAL ID non persons.

 

• REAL ID is an unfunded mandate.  The bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures has classified it as “the most egregious example” of an unfunded federal mandate. The Governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford has stated that when all things are considered the Federal Government will pay only 2% of the actual cost of implementing REAL ID leaving the rest to the states.

 For more info on REAL ID go to www.realnightmare.com

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