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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 1999
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Strange bedfellows
battle national ID
Groups mobilize to repeal
law mandating card
By Sarah Foster
� 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
It's not often you find groups as far
apart politically as the American Civil
Liberties Union, La Raza, Eagle Forum
and Concerned Women of America on
the same side of an issue.
But these organizations and others --
such as the Conference of State
Legislatures, the Electronic Privacy
Information Center and Free Congress
Foundation -- are united in a
broad-based coalition from across the
political spectrum to force repeal of
an obscure section of an immigration
law Congress passed three years ago,
which provides a provision for turning
state driver's licenses into what these
critics claim is a national
identification card.
Section 626 (b) of the Illegal
Immigration Reform and Immigrant
Responsibilities Act of 1996 requires
states to collect, verify and display
social security numbers on
state-issued driver's licenses and
conform with federally-mandated
uniform features for driver's licenses.
It authorizes the federal Department of
Transportation to establish national
requirements for birth certificates and
driver's licenses.
The Illegal Immigration Reform Act --
with Section 626 (b) -- is scheduled to
take effect Oct. 1, 2000.
"Basically, what the statute says is
that federal agencies 'may not accept
for identification or related purposes a
driver's license or other comparable
identification document issued by a
state unless the license or document
satisfies the requirements established
by the act,'" said Norm Singleton,
Rep. Paul's legislative assistant,
quoting the act itself.
"What that in essence means is that
anything that under federal law you're
required to show an ID for, you can
only show or produce an ID that
corresponds to the standards of the
act," Singleton explained.
"You will have a mandated, uniform
ID that you will have to show before
opening a bank account, getting a job,
traveling on a plane, applying for
Social Security or Medicare -- those
are some of the things you won't be
able to do without a federally
approved ID," he said.
In addition to Social Security numbers
the new driver's licenses may include
microchips encoded with the holder's
fingerprints and other personal data.
In the House Ron Paul has led the
fight against Section 626 (b).
"It's a threat to liberty," says
Singleton. "That's why Congressman
Paul favors repeal of this section.
There's no constitutional authority for
the federal government to be telling
the states what kind of ID they must
issue to their citizens in order to get a
driver's license or any other kind of
license. It's another example in this
country of how we're allowing the
erosion of our traditional liberties and
our Bill of Rights."
In the Senate, Richard Shelby, R-Ala.,
has taken a leading role by attaching
an amendment to a transportation
appropriations bill that would repeal
the controversial Section 656 (b). The
appropriations bill is now in the
conference committee, and could be
discussed and voted on as early as
today -- certainly by the end of the
week.
The question is whether the language
to repeal Sec. 626 (b) will be allowed
to remain.
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, is fighting
all efforts to keep the repeal language.
He denies Section 626 (b) spells a
national ID card, and views it as a
much-needed way of stemming illegal
immigration.
In case the repeal language is
removed, the opponents in the House
have another avenue to pursue:
Earlier this year Rep. Paul introduced
HR 2337 which would repeal the
section.
"If the appropriation bill passes
without the repeal in it, the alternative
for those who support the national ID
repeal is to support efforts to get HR
2337 to the floor of the House and
then through the Senate. That's really
our only other option," he said.
Towards this end Paul and a group of
colleagues in the House have launched
an organization -- the Liberty Study
Committee -- dedicated to the issues
dealing with privacy, presidential
executive orders and the United
Nations.
The first project is the repeal of the
national ID card -- and there is a
special web address for this -- at No
National ID.com. This has links to the
Conference Committee members and
the other members of Congress.
Kent Snyder, project director, said,
"Rep. Paul hopes the American people
will make their voices heard on this
issue like they did in the past on
national IDs, on medical IDs, on Know
Your Customer -- and that they make
sure that their representatives
understand that they want a Congress
that respects their constitutional
liberties."
� 1999 WorldNetDaily.com, Inc.
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