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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on September 22, 2015, 10:54:51 PM
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No, they won't! Once again the DUmmies fall for clickbait from alternet.
99th_Monkey (13,591 posts) Tue Sep 22, 2015, 07:09 PM
WTF? People From 5 States Will Soon Need Passports to Fly Within the U.S.A.
New York, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, American Samoa, and New Hampshire.
People From These 5 States Will Soon Need Passports to Fly Within the U.S.
No reason was given for why these states and regions were singled out.
By Zaid Jilani * AlterNet * September 22, 2015
Thanks to provisions in the little-known Real ID Act – passed in 2005 – five states will soon require a passport to fly even within the continental United States.
The Department of Homeland Security has named New York, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, American Samoa, and New Hampshire as locations where the residents will be required to use their passports to fly on commercial airplanes. Although there is no reason given for why these states and regions were singled out, it could possibly be because driver's licenses – the traditional form of identification used at airports – have to be compatible with Real ID requirements, and it's possible that the licenses in these states are not.
As an alternative, the Transportation Security Agency will accept Enhanced Driver's Licenses, which are used in some border states to allow travel to Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean, but few Americans have them.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/people-these-5-states-will-soon-need-passports-fly-within-us
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027193617
It's a good sized bonfire of poutraged DUmmies.
As usual the morons at Alternet flat out lie about the story. In fact there isn't a story to be told.
May Federal agencies accept my Enhanced Driver’s License?
Yes. State Enhanced Driver’s Licenses (EDLs) designated as acceptable border-crossing documents by DHS under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) are acceptable for official federal purposes such as accessing a Federal facility or boarding a commercial aircraft. Individual agency policies may still apply.
Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont, and Washington are the only states that currently issue EDLs. For more information on EDLs, please go to http://www.dhs.gov/enhanced-drivers-licenses-what-are-they.
http://www.dhs.gov/enhanced-drivers-licenses-what-are-they
The four states they mention as being banned from air travel actually issue enhanced driver's licenses that may also be used to enter the US instead of a passport.
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Damn you President Bush!!!
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Damn you President Bush!!!
Even when Bush didn't do it, Bush did it!
But playing along with the faux "news" story ... Obama has been President since 2009, and the Ds controlled both houses of Congress from 2009-2011 ... it's now late 2015 ... Obama & the Ds didn't fix this (non-) problem?
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American Samoa is now a state? Hmm, who knew.
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American Samoa is now a state? Hmm, who knew.
1 of 57, yes.
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1 of 57, yes.
Must be one that the Empty Suit didn't get around to visiting.
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Must be one that the Empty Suit didn't get around to visiting.
He was going to visit there but the Navy couldn't come up with any corpsemen to accompany him on the trip in case he had any medical issues while traveling abroad.
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Must be one that the Empty Suit didn't get around to visiting.
Not to mention the Gulf States along the Atlantic Seaboard.
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w0nderer (648 posts)
34. Kind of funny how in many other countries
The passport is the first photo id a child gets
then the national ID
then the drivers license
even more funny (from an immigrant perspective)
is listening to us library workers bitching that a social sec card (number, no picture)
birthcertificate (name, no picture no finger prints)
or a powerbill are valid "id's" but a friggin PASSPORT isn't...
course not, a passport is accepted all over the world, by homeland defense and so on
but a library needs a power bill
heh
i love my adopted country but you guys are funny sometimes ya know?
Well, DUmmie, the library is less concerned about your criminal record and more concerned with wanting proof that you live in the library's area of service. Anyone can walk into a library and browse the books, but if you want a library card, you need to show some proof you live in the area.
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Well, DUmmie, the library is less concerned about your criminal record and more concerned with wanting proof that you live in the library's area of service. Anyone can walk into a library and browse the books, but if you want a library card, you need to show some proof you live in the area.
Unless you vote.
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He was going to visit there but the Navy couldn't come up with any corpsemen to accompany him on the trip in case he had any medical issues while traveling abroad.
Either that or they were afraid that American Samoa would capsize from the weight of Air Force One landing on it.
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Either that or they were afraid that American Samoa would capsize from the weight of Obama's ego landing on it.
FIFY