{"id":28526,"date":"2011-01-12T08:50:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T16:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28526"},"modified":"2011-01-12T08:50:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T16:50:50","slug":"one-way-to-fight-illegal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28526","title":{"rendered":"One Way To Fight Illegal Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/cis.org\/real-id\" href=\"http:\/\/cis.org\/real-id\">Implementing REAL  ID<\/a><\/b><\/center><b><a title=\"http:\/\/cis.org\/real-id\" href=\"http:\/\/cis.org\/real-id\"><\/a><\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:130%;\"> <center><b>Less Expensive, Doable, and Helpful in Reducing  Fraud<\/b><\/center><b><\/b><\/span><br \/>\nWASHINGTON (January 10, 2011) \u2013 By May 2011, all  states must be in compliance with the first 18 security benchmarks of the  federal secure driver&#8217;s license law known as the REAL ID Act. REAL ID was  prompted by the fact that the 9\/11 hijackers acquired a total of 30 state-issued  IDs and driver&#8217;s licenses in order to embed themselves here (and board  airplanes).<\/p>\n<p>The Center for Immigration Studies has published a review of  the current state of REAL ID: &#8216;<a title=\"http:\/\/cis.org\/real-id\" href=\"http:\/\/cis.org\/real-id\">REAL ID Implementation: Less Expensive, Doable,  and Helpful in Reducing Fraud<\/a>&#8216; was prepared by <b>Janice Kephart<\/b>, a  former 9\/11 Commission counsel and currently the Center&#8217;s National Security  Policy Director. The paper is online at www.cis.org. Among the findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>REAL ID has proven easier and less expensive to implement than previously  believed. Using actual state budget numbers, total one-time costs to implement  REAL ID\u2019s 18 security benchmarks, for all states combined, could be as low as  $350 million and not likely to exceed $750 million.\n<\/li>\n<li>These numbers are significantly less than the one-time costs of at least $1  billion that the National Governors Association (NGA), National Conference of  State Legislatures (NCSL), and the American Association of Motor Vehicle  Administrators (AAMVA) claimed in 2006.\n<\/li>\n<li>Eleven states are already fully compliant with REAL ID&#8217;s 18 security  benchmarks, ahead of the May 2011 deadline. Another eight states are close  behind.\n<\/li>\n<li>The legal presence of applicants is being checked in all but two states, up  28 states from 2006. Every state is now checking Social Security numbers.\n<\/li>\n<li>Some states were able to achieve full compliance in less than a year, and  other state costs came in significantly below the projections which have been  used for years to denigrate REAL ID\u2019s feasibility.\n<\/li>\n<li>Compliant states are finding REAL ID to be helpful in reducing fraud by  criminals and illegal aliens shopping for the easiest driver&#8217;s license issuance  rules. Motor vehicle departments using REAL ID standards are also increasing  criminal investigations of those who have traditionally used driver&#8217;s license  systems to commit identity theft and operate illegally under multiple  identities.\n<\/li>\n<li>Regulatory proposals from the NGA, NCSL, and AAMVA, slated for an upcoming  lobbying campaign, incorporate language from Homeland Security Secretary Janet  Napolitano\u2019s failed 2009 PASS ID Act, which sought to repeal much of REAL ID.\n<\/li>\n<li>Secretary Napolitano in November 2010 ordered an internal review with the  goal of using the regulatory process to change REAL ID requirements after the  failure of PASS ID.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The paper also includes a chart listing for  every state the current status of implementation, federal grant monies issued to  date, and costs of compliance, where available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Implementing REAL ID Less Expensive, Doable, and Helpful in Reducing Fraud WASHINGTON (January 10, 2011) \u2013 By May 2011, all states must be in compliance with the first 18 security benchmarks of the federal secure driver&#8217;s license law known as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28526\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[25084,12625,25081,25082,17177,25083],"class_list":["post-28526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","tag-american-association-of-motor-vehicle-administrators","tag-janice-kephart","tag-motor-vehicle-administrators","tag-national-conference-of-state-legislatures","tag-national-governors-association","tag-real-id-act"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}