or cashing a check or buying alcohol or getting a job (they are required to have a state issued picture ID. I believe that's a FEDERAL law)
Kind of a problem for some folks to produce an ID Card . The illegals would head south to VA. and pay off a worker at the DMV and get a drivers license for a couple hundred bucks, head back up north and head for the DMV in northern towns and get a valid state drivers license up here.
No problem just show up with the VA. drivers license, take a test of perhaps 10 questions and off they go with a valid ID from whatever state in the north they lived in.
The Embassy's in NY churn out birth certificates, and darn near any ID anyone wants for a price.
Our very small town had a town clerk that blew the whistle on the people coming in with their so called international drivers licenses. She Had one , it is a paper document and she was getting folks in with some kind of lamated card, much like our Driveres license. She called the cops and even some of the State police did not know these cards were not legal. What a mess, all towns in the state had to be alerted, The town police and State police all over the state. -------This one town clerk in a Podunk town caught the Scam that even our State police were being fooled with.
Then In Maine, Mom went to get her license renewed at the age of 87, she had had a license in Maine for 50 years, she had her Military card as a dependent, her still active license, but they insisted on seeing her frigging birth certificate. ------Insane, what they looked at her, her past 50 years of license in the state but even with other ID needed to know if she was what--Legal -----Had she just gone in and spoke Ethiopian with an interpreter she would have gotten her license on the spot.
ID's are not worth a hill of beans today, when Moms Military dependent card was turned down as Identification yet Identification cards that are mass produced are excepted, Hell anyone can go to a cemetery, note the birth dates of a youngster, head for the Court house and get their birth certificate , claim the dead child is you and go on to use that certificate to do most anything they wish under that name.
Only in the last 30 years have kids at birth been given SS# numbers, None of my kids got them until they applied for one as late teenagers.
This becomes a world of ---" Who are you, Who were you, do you even want to know?"