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Showing posts with label Department of Homeland Security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Department of Homeland Security. Show all posts
Friday, February 4, 2011
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
E-Verify misses half of illegal workers
Freedom's Phoenix>> AP
WASHINGTON - The system Congress and the Obama administration want employers to use to help curb illegal immigration is failing to catch more than half the number of unauthorized workers it checks, a research company has found.
The online tool E-Verify, now used voluntarily by employers, wrongly clears illegal workers about 54 percent of the time, according to Westat, a research company that evaluated the system for the Homeland Security Department. E-Verify missed so many illegal workers mainly because it can't detect identity fraud, Westat said.
"Clearly it means it's not doing it's No. 1 job well enough," said Mark Rosenblum, a researcher at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan, Washington think tank.
E-Verify allows employers to run a worker's information against Homeland Security and Social Security databases to check whether they are permitted to work in the U.S. The Obama administration has made cracking down on employers who hire people here illegally a central part of its immigration enforcement policy, and there are expectations that some Republicans in Congress will try in coming weeks to make E-Verify mandatory.
E-Verify correctly identified legal workers 93 percent of the time, Westat said. However, previous studies have not quantified how many immigrants were fooling the E-Verify system. Much of the criticism of E-Verify has focused on whether U.S. citizens and legal immigrants with permission to work were falsely flagged as illegal workers.
Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, who is writing the Democrats' immigration bill and has fought expanding E-Verify because of its flaws, said Wednesday that the fact that E-Verify was inaccurate so often shows that it is not an adequate tool.
"This is a wake-up call to anyone who thinks E-verify is an effective remedy to stop the hiring of illegal immigrants," Schumer said.
A so-called worker verification process like E-Verify is considered essential to any immigration overhaul proposal that has any chance of approval in Congress.
Westat's report, completed in December 2009 using data from the previous year, was quietly posted on Homeland Security's Web site Jan. 28 along with a summary that pointed out E-Verify is accurate "almost half of the time."
"While not perfect, it is important to note that E-Verify is much more effective" than the I-9 paper forms used by most employers, the summary said.
Rosenblum, who has studied E-Verify, said Westat's evaluation shows it doesn't make sense to substantially expand and invest in E-Verify without fixing the identity theft problem.
Bill Wright, a spokesman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said the agency, part of the Homeland Security Department, has created an anti-immigrant identity fraud unit in Buffalo, New York, to address the issue.
The agency is developing a way for people to screen themselves through E-Verify so they can show potential employers they can legally work.
About 184,000 of the nation's 7 million to 8 million employers are using E-Verify, the Homeland Security Department says on its Web site.
Congress gave DHS about $100 million to spend on E-Verify in its 2010 budget.
WASHINGTON - The system Congress and the Obama administration want employers to use to help curb illegal immigration is failing to catch more than half the number of unauthorized workers it checks, a research company has found.
The online tool E-Verify, now used voluntarily by employers, wrongly clears illegal workers about 54 percent of the time, according to Westat, a research company that evaluated the system for the Homeland Security Department. E-Verify missed so many illegal workers mainly because it can't detect identity fraud, Westat said.
"Clearly it means it's not doing it's No. 1 job well enough," said Mark Rosenblum, a researcher at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan, Washington think tank.
E-Verify allows employers to run a worker's information against Homeland Security and Social Security databases to check whether they are permitted to work in the U.S. The Obama administration has made cracking down on employers who hire people here illegally a central part of its immigration enforcement policy, and there are expectations that some Republicans in Congress will try in coming weeks to make E-Verify mandatory.
E-Verify correctly identified legal workers 93 percent of the time, Westat said. However, previous studies have not quantified how many immigrants were fooling the E-Verify system. Much of the criticism of E-Verify has focused on whether U.S. citizens and legal immigrants with permission to work were falsely flagged as illegal workers.
Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, who is writing the Democrats' immigration bill and has fought expanding E-Verify because of its flaws, said Wednesday that the fact that E-Verify was inaccurate so often shows that it is not an adequate tool.
"This is a wake-up call to anyone who thinks E-verify is an effective remedy to stop the hiring of illegal immigrants," Schumer said.
A so-called worker verification process like E-Verify is considered essential to any immigration overhaul proposal that has any chance of approval in Congress.
Westat's report, completed in December 2009 using data from the previous year, was quietly posted on Homeland Security's Web site Jan. 28 along with a summary that pointed out E-Verify is accurate "almost half of the time."
"While not perfect, it is important to note that E-Verify is much more effective" than the I-9 paper forms used by most employers, the summary said.
Rosenblum, who has studied E-Verify, said Westat's evaluation shows it doesn't make sense to substantially expand and invest in E-Verify without fixing the identity theft problem.
Bill Wright, a spokesman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said the agency, part of the Homeland Security Department, has created an anti-immigrant identity fraud unit in Buffalo, New York, to address the issue.
The agency is developing a way for people to screen themselves through E-Verify so they can show potential employers they can legally work.
About 184,000 of the nation's 7 million to 8 million employers are using E-Verify, the Homeland Security Department says on its Web site.
Congress gave DHS about $100 million to spend on E-Verify in its 2010 budget.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
BTC DIGEST: Real ID Updates in the States
Extension Is Not The Answer, Napolitano Says
WASHINGTON - Napolitano, the former governor of Arizona, is sympathetic to opponents of Real ID. In fact, she used to be one herself. But she says waiving the law's requirements, as was done last year, is the wrong way to go.
"One of the reasons we had Real ID and now, Pass ID, is because the 9/11 Commission had a recommendation that we improve the security quality of driver's licenses. And because Real ID has been rejected by the states, just by granting extension after extension after extension, we're not getting to the pathway of more secure driver's licenses."
Under the current provisions of Real ID, travelers from states not in compliance with the law would, among other things, not be able to use their driver's licenses as IDs to board commercial flights. That would cause massive travel disruptions during the holiday season, requiring additional screening of virtually all travelers. No one expects that to happen. But like Napolitano, the governors want to see the new law approved, rather than once again extending Real ID's deadline.
"It appears it could be extended again, but really, you're putting a Band-Aid on a pretty big open wound," Quam says. "What the governors have said for a long time is, you need to change the law — the law is flawed."
But time is running out for a congressional fix, which means a last-minute blanket waiver of Real ID is becoming more and more likely.
Blaming border fence for deaths makes little sense
c/o San Diego Union Times >> ALIPAC
Those immigration activists who oppose more border fencing don’t have to convince us of the folly of trying to solve our immigration problem with nothing more than barbed wire and metal barriers. We’re with them. Unlike those Americans who’d like to simply build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and call it a day, we’ve never been convinced that this was a wise strategy. ::: MORE HERE:::
South Carolina Updates Homeland Security On Federal REAL ID Program
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
PASS ID Legislation Waits for Full Senate Vote
NEMA projects PASS Act's Greenlight by December '09
c/o NEMA
On June 16, 2009, the “Providing for Additional Security in States’ Identification Act of 2009”(PASS ID) that would repeal and replace the REAL ID Act of 2005 in order to allow all states to fully comply with security measures designed to make ID’s safer was introduced in the Senate.
c/o NEMA
On June 16, 2009, the “Providing for Additional Security in States’ Identification Act of 2009”(PASS ID) that would repeal and replace the REAL ID Act of 2005 in order to allow all states to fully comply with security measures designed to make ID’s safer was introduced in the Senate.
The bill was introduced by Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI), a member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, along with seven other co-sponsors, four of which also serve on the committee. The PASS ID Act removes certain provisions of the REAL ID Act including the requirement that State’s share identification information with each other as well as the strict rules governing use of REAL ID compliant identification to board commercial aircraft while keeping other non-controversial requirements. In July, a hearing was held to examine PASS ID legislation and Secretary Napolitano testified on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security.
On July 27, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee ordered the bill reported favorably but
as of this time, no full Senate vote has been scheduled.
Despite Secretary Napolitano communicating directly with Governors through a letter, there remains a stalemate on REAL ID implementation. The Department is reluctant to continue extending the end-of-year deadline, but 13 states stand statutorily prohibited from implementing the program. A majority of states and NGA have endorsed PASS ID. It is the hope of the Secretary to see PASS ID approved by December 31.
On July 27, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee ordered the bill reported favorably but
as of this time, no full Senate vote has been scheduled.
Despite Secretary Napolitano communicating directly with Governors through a letter, there remains a stalemate on REAL ID implementation. The Department is reluctant to continue extending the end-of-year deadline, but 13 states stand statutorily prohibited from implementing the program. A majority of states and NGA have endorsed PASS ID. It is the hope of the Secretary to see PASS ID approved by December 31.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Witnesses: E-Verify system can't detect ID theft
E-Verify is a voluntary system used by about 134,000 employers, though it is mandatory to some degree in 12 states. Under an executive order from the Bush administration, federal contractors were supposed to begin mandatory use of E-Verify in January. However, that deadline has been pushed back to Sept. 8 due to a lawsuit. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently said the Sept. 8 deadline would be firm.
Flaw could allow dishonest workers to thwart the system
c/o Federal Computer Week
Alice Lipowicz
The Homeland Security Department’s E-Verify employment verification system cannot detect identity theft and fraudulent applications, according to testimony before a Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee.
The Internet-based E-Verify system allows employers to check Social Security numbers for their employees and prospective employees to determine whether the numbers are valid and the employees are therefore eligible to work. However, it is not designed to detect borrowed or stolen Social Security numbers.
“E-Verify is not without its flaws, including one fundamental problem: its inability to detect identity theft,” Lynden Melmed, former chief counsel for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), told the committee's Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship Subcommittee on July 21. “Unlawful workers can beat E-Verify by using another individual's valid identification.”
USCIS has been expanding its database of photographs to be used as a back-up checking tool to ensure that the images of applicants presenting their Social Security numbers to E-Verify match in appearance the images in photos existing in current government systems linked to the same Social Security number. However, the photographic matching is limited in scope, Melmed added.
Melmed endorsed the idea of strengthening E-Verify to include possible fingerprint collection.
“Congress should therefore give consideration to using E-Verify as a platform and expanding photo-tool for currently issued documents and/or incorporating a new biometric identification document,” Melmed said.
Former USCIS Commissioner James Ziglar told the panel, "If someone has stolen an identity and presents legitimate documents connected to that identity, or presents fraudulent documents which make use of stolen identity data, the purpose of the employment eligibility verification exercise can be defeated.”
“In my opinion, it would border on irresponsible not to seriously analyze the possibility of incorporating a biometric identification and verification module into the E-Verify system,” Ziglar said.
E-Verify is a voluntary system used by about 134,000 employers, though it is mandatory to some degree in 12 states. Under an executive order from the Bush administration, federal contractors were supposed to begin mandatory use of E-Verify in January. However, that deadline has been pushed back to Sept. 8 due to a lawsuit. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently said the Sept. 8 deadline would be firm.
The E-Verify system has been controversial due to alleged high error rates in the databases used. USCIS acknowledges a 3.1 percent rate of initial non-matches in the system.
The Migration Policy Institute on July 20 issued a report recommending that DHS test several options to strengthen E-Verify, including use of personal identification numbers and biometric scans.
Monday, June 15, 2009
CAUGHT ON TAPE: FEMA/Homeland Stupidity
This speaks for itself... DHS is threatened by dead conservative idealogues.
Monday, April 6, 2009
When TSA Interrogates a Ron Paul Supporter...
Missouri Strikes Again
You all may know Steve Bierfelt, a well known blogger. We heard this audio account of a Steve who was detained by TSA for having a large amount of cash. According to this article Bierfelt was targeted by TSA for his political affiliation and for possession of several thousand dollars in cash.
From appearances, Blogger Bob, thought he did a good job catching the "bad guy". That was why there was so many affirmations of the TSA apprehension by TSA to follow this account. If you asked us, it looks like TSA trying to publicly justify their Homeland Stupidity.
Please go to the article and listen to the entire account c/o Daily Newscaster:
http://www.dailynewscaster.com/2009/04/05/tsa-responds-to-the-recorded-interrogation-of-ron-paul-supporter/
You all may know Steve Bierfelt, a well known blogger. We heard this audio account of a Steve who was detained by TSA for having a large amount of cash. According to this article Bierfelt was targeted by TSA for his political affiliation and for possession of several thousand dollars in cash.
From appearances, Blogger Bob, thought he did a good job catching the "bad guy". That was why there was so many affirmations of the TSA apprehension by TSA to follow this account. If you asked us, it looks like TSA trying to publicly justify their Homeland Stupidity.
Please go to the article and listen to the entire account c/o Daily Newscaster:
http://www.dailynewscaster.com/2009/04/05/tsa-responds-to-the-recorded-interrogation-of-ron-paul-supporter/
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
ALOHA, Chertie!
Let's all say goodbye to Sr. Michael "you-know-you-want-this" Chertoff - his tour of public service is over. FINALLY!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
First 100 Days of Sparkling Light?
CHANGE IS COMING TO FEMA... Truthout/WashingtonPost.com
The Federal Emergency Management Administration, a tragicomic disaster since Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 -- and even before then -- looks to be getting a facelift under the Obama administration, sources tell us.
First off, the likely plan is to break off the agency from the Department of Homeland Security, a move that would in itself help restore the pride FEMA folks felt when it was an independent agency.
BTC Comment:
Extracting FEMA from the Department of Homeland Security may mean the beginning of the end for the National Applications Office. Again, you don't need multi-million dollar spying sattellites creating dystopic enmity with terrified people fleeing from domestic disasters. I personally would love to see DHS go back to simply being the Department of Domestic Security. It's broke, so lets fix it.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
OBAMA, DHS Flight Lists, & Repeal of Real ID
Civil liberties groups like the ACLU & The Electronic Frontier Foundation are lining up to present their priorities for the incoming Obama administration.
Among EFF's Declarations :
"Scale back the use of National Security Letters to gag and acquire data from online service providers. The REAL ID Act, with its requirement that Americans carry a national ID card, has been rejected by many U.S. states and should be federally repealed. Large-scale government data collection and data-mining projects like Automated Targeting System (ATS) should be reduced or eliminated. Invasive border-searches of electronic devices should be stopped."President Bush, produced an environment so damaging to civil liberties, you would have to be comatose not to notice the before-&-after levels of public monitoring and movement infringements. Although, we did achieve a victory in the restoration of habeas corpus.
The DHS are seeking additional staffing ramping up to a new deadline for Secure Flight in January. {January? Isn't that when our new hero is sworn in?} The tax-cash for this moved forward without oversight from the GAO- Government Accountability Office.
AIMING TO KILL FLIES WITH A SLEDGEHAMMER: What have we done?
As part of my blogging editorial responsibilities here at BeatTheChip, I bear the burden of truth. Here is my interpretation of the US government implementing public surveillance.
They are watching us. OK- so why are they REALLY watching us?
Not necessarily because we are doing anything wrong, but due to their collective paranoia over blowback from those they have wronged- which now includes the American people. After witnessing the RNC mass arrest of non-violent protestors, including 42 accredited journalists, they might be a lot edgy over their lack of popularity. Vicious cycle - the more excessive force they use, they know there will be retaliation. They are aware of how they would react if they were on the receiving end of their treatment. So why drive the repression of rights for the common man with illegal, immoral and universally inhuman practices detrimental to peace and prosperity? They are losing their grip on their own place in the human race.
All soldiers develop a level of dehumanizing logic that makes absolutely no sense, so they can execute adroit orders to maim, kill, posion and do bad things to otherwise innocent people. That is how they make their living.
My thought here to rise above this, is recognition of American Heritage. As a nation, we reap what we sow. We have been blithely aware, so much more swept up in the toilet of distractions laid in front of us, to ignore our bad behavior in less fortunate nations we have victimized. I think of Grenada - a nation who refused us bananas or sugar and paid with blood.
How dumb are we if didn't think the persistent lack of conscience would eventually become a continental U.S. problem? Since when are we too good to reign in our own government?
The executive "dream team" who renamed The Department of Domestic Security to Homeland Security, according to a Nazi playbook needs to know who opposes the excesses of spying, invasion of privacy and pilfering of boundaries. They need to know who to shut up.
One of these days we are going to interview an average telecomm investigator as an employee, just to find our where their head is at. They're still Americans - maybe just stuck for a paycheck, two kids and alimony, a mortgage. Who are these people? America's gestapo reprobates or just suckered into a "secure" lifestyle where surveillance just a way to pay the bills.
A STORY FROM MY PERSONAL HISTORY: Your tax dollars at work
My father worked for a special warfare test division on a base in the Republic of Panama during the Noriega regime. We lived in "the Green Zone". A zone occupied by military personnell living and working peacibly in Panama. What I now know about the CIA, Noriega, the Iran Contra scandal and Panama's role in the whole scenario has made me both sadder and wiser.
Nonetheless, as a dependent child I was in a good place to observe and learn what the day-to-day looks like when you are in an aggrivated state of police monitoring. I rode a skateboard. I was a kid and kids have to go outside and play - threat or no threat.
I walked outside of my home one day to find a fully munitioned humvee with a singular military policeman on-duty parked next to our driveway. He was toting a rifle. No big deal. I had seen servicemen with guns frequently enough it really wasn't intimidating. However, they never were camped outside of my house with no notice. It seemed a little out of place.
I resumed skateboard practice. It was quiet, nothing going on, except that were in an escalated Personnell Movement Limitation (PML) Charlie - excessive rioting and unrest among Panamanians and where U.S. defense personnell were more active. The trouble was, we had been in PML Charlie for 6 weeks and nothing was really going on in the streets. We went to school with Panamanians and other kids whose parents were international diplomats. Honestly, everyone was a little weary of what we call today "fear mongering"- with nothing actually going on. It was restrictive and excessive. That tends to bug bored kids, whose job really is to find their way around overarching administrators.
As I started in skateboarding, the MP stationed outside of my house began to tell me not to skateboard in front of my house. His reason? I was crossing over the "green zone into the orange zone". I looked at him and explained that nothing was going on. I looked around me illustrating there were no cars on the street - literally, NOTHING was happening. I kept skateboarding and he looked the other way, because it was as rediculous as I had indicated - and he knew it. I persisted with this action for 10 -12 minutes then I got bored and went back in the house looking for something else to do.
We all have better things to do with our lifetime, but when you live on a base or in a military civilization you are swimming in an irrational amount of protocols, rules, and orders. There's not a whole lot you can do "right", otherwise someone loses their usefulness.
There is a limit to the useful purpose of military personnel. To this day, I wonder how much taxpayer money was spent to have that humvee, armed to the teeth, stationed outside our house complete with one MP staff seargant with not much to do.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
STOP SB60: The California Real ID Act of 2005
SB 60 conforms California law with the Federal Real ID Act of 2005.
Wherever your stance on immigration the breakdown of SB60 is the same. "Politics makes strange bedfellows," someone wise once said. Such is the case ALIPAC is an anti-illegal immigration that believes that Real IDs do not solve "the immigration problem" .
Arnold is about to sign away the identity rights of Californians. We have to call a stop to it.
SB60 will put every Californian at risk for identity theft, enter them onto a biometrics grid, enters the state of California into an illegal business compact with Mexico (or Canada), and threatens to undermine National Security by adding public officials social security numbers and private information into an insecure database where it can be accessed by identity criminals.
There are plenty of reasons to support the opposition of SB60. One way is to hold Swarzenegger to a campaign promise.
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Today, and each day this week, we need all of our national volunteers to make one important call and send one e-mail. WE NEED ALIPACers IN ALL STATES TO RESPOND TO THIS NEED IN CALIFORNIA!
The myth that the Real ID Act was designed to stop illegal aliens from receiving licenses was destroyed, when TN started giving illegals Real ID compliant licenses two years ago, and again this year when defamed Governor Eliot Spitzer tried to give Real ID compliant licenses to illegals.
Refresher Video ALIPAC on CBS fighting Spitzer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7fhE_VclAY
We won in TN and NY state by stopping their plans to give illegals Real ID Compliant licenses. Some ALIPACers support Real ID and others do not, but we want to make sure that everyone knows Real ID is not designed to stop illegals from getting licenses. It is most likely that Real ID is your new continental ID.
The California legislature has passed SB 60 which will give illegals licenses. The bill now goes to the Governor's desk to be signed.
If the Governor signs this bill, California will become the first state in America to pass a law in 2008 establishing a benefit for illegal aliens. It will also become the first example reversing the trend of cutting licenses off from illegal aliens. In the last year, ALIPAC has helped to reverse state policies of giving licenses to illegals in Oregon, Michigan, and Maine.
The pro-amnesty crowd in California is responding to growing pressures on the license front!
We need you to call and e-mail Governor Schwarzenegger and remind him of his campaign promise NOT TO GIVE LICENSES TO ILLEGAL ALIENS!
Please use this contact information and review our sample message.
PLEASE CALL AND DELIVER YOUR MESSAGE BY PHONE AND THEN FOLLOW-UP WITH A WRITTEN LETTER, E-MAIL, or FAX for maximum impact. If you do not call, our chances of blocking this bill diminish greatly. Call and write!
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-445-2841
Fax: 916-558-3160
Email at:
http://gov.ca.gov/interact#contact
"Governor Schwarzenegger,
I am writing to ask you to veto SB 60 and to prevent illegal aliens from receiving any form of a driver license as you promised, when Californians elected you over Gray Davis. In fact, it was public anger against Gray Davis and licenses for illegal aliens that swept you into office! Over 80% of the American public does not want illegal aliens to receive ID, Licenses, or any taxpayer benefits from the state! That is why a historic number of states have passed laws cracking down on illegal immigration in 2008. Of the few remaining states that give licenses to illegal aliens, Oregon, Maine, Utah, and Michigan have all abandoned the process this year!
Please do not let California become the first and only state in 2008 to pass a law that defies the will of the vast majority of Americans by providing licenses or benefits for illegal aliens"
If you would like to post a copy of your message to the Governor or any feedback you receive, please do so at this link...
http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-762374.html#762374
Senate
California Legislature
Gilbert A. Cedillo
SENATOR, TWENTY SECOND DISTRICT
SB 60 - The California Real ID Act of 2007
Fact Sheet
What is the problem?
In 2005, Congress passed and President Bush signed the Federal Real ID Act of 2005. The Act requires that states retool their system of issuing driver's license to ensure uniformity among all states and greater security regarding both the license itself and the identity of the person to whom it is issued. States must begin issuing Federal Real ID compliant licenses by May 2008.
California has a population of approximately 2 million undocumented immigrants who live and work in our state. In 1993, California stopped issuing driver's licenses to drivers that could not prove legal residency. Persons who can not show proof of legal residency currently drive on our roadways without being tested, licensed, or insured.
What does SB 60 do?
SB 60 conforms California law with the Federal Real ID Act of 2005.
First, SB 60 enables California to meet the minimum document design and security requirements set forth in the Act in order for driver's to have a federally recognized driver's license. These new federal requirements ensure, among other things, that all states have the same information about the driver on the license, ensure that the license is manufactured in a secure facility, and that the document itself has security features designed to prevent counterfeiting.
Secondly, SB 60 conforms California law to the minimum issuance standards of the Federal Real ID Act by requiring all applicants for a California driver's license to meet the minimum identity requirements for a federally recognized driver's license. These requirements include presentation by an applicant, and verification by the DMV, of a picture ID; a document showing a date of birth; proof of a social security number or verification that the person is not eligible; proof of address; and evidence of lawful status. Lawful status includes 1) citizens; 2) lawful permanent residents; 3) conditional permanent residents; 4) persons with approved applications of asylum; 5) persons with a valid, unexpired nonimmigrant visa; 6) persons with pending applications for asylum; 7) persons with a pending or approved application for temporary protected status in the U.S.; 8) persons with an approved deferred action status; and 9) persons with pending applications for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted. Applicants that have lawful status with documents 5) - 9) are eligible for temporary licenses that expire in 1 year but can be renewed upon verification, from the Department of Homeland Security, that the person's status has been extended. The DMV must verify all documents and the only foreign document that can be accepted is an official passport.
Further, SB 60 conforms California law to the optional provisions of the Federal Real ID Act by providing a "driving only license," that is not recognized by the federal government for identification purposes, and clearly states on its face that it cannot be used by any federal agency for federal identification or any other official purpose. This document must also have a unique design or color feature, as required by federal law. This "driving only license" is available to applicants that cannot meet the minimum identity requirements required for a federally recognized driver's license. Holders of this "driving only license" cannot use their license as identification to enter federal facilities, boarding federally regulated commercial aircraft, entering nuclear power plants or any other purpose as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Who supports SB 60?
Senator Gil Cedillo (Sponsor)
Senator Ron Calderon
Senator Gloria Romero
Senator Sheila Kuehl
Senator Jenny Oropeza
Assm. Mervyn Dymally
Assm. Tony Mendoza
Assm. Nell Soto
Assm. Joe Coto
AFSME
Bienestar Human Services, Inc.
CA Alliance for Retired Americans
CA Catholic Conference
CA Nurses Association
California School Employees Assoc. (AFL-CIO)
Casa Nicaragua
Gilmore Associates
Gray Panthers
JERICHO
Jovenes, Inc. /Youth, Inc.
Lambda Letters Project
LAUSD
MALDEF
Mexican American Community Services Agency, Inc.
National Association of Social Workers
Nisei Farmers League (NFL)
North Valley Sponsoring Committee
PICO California
Salvadoran-American Leadership and Education Fund
South Bay Latino Chamber of Commerce
Unite Here Local 11
Ventura County Agricultural Association
Yolo County Sheriff's Department
Office of the Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa
Personal Insurance Federation of California
Los Angeles Police Department
Consumer Attorneys of California
Latin American Agents Association
California Teachers Association
California ACORN
Mexican American Community Services Agency, Inc.
Wherever your stance on immigration the breakdown of SB60 is the same. "Politics makes strange bedfellows," someone wise once said. Such is the case ALIPAC is an anti-illegal immigration that believes that Real IDs do not solve "the immigration problem" .
Arnold is about to sign away the identity rights of Californians. We have to call a stop to it.
SB60 will put every Californian at risk for identity theft, enter them onto a biometrics grid, enters the state of California into an illegal business compact with Mexico (or Canada), and threatens to undermine National Security by adding public officials social security numbers and private information into an insecure database where it can be accessed by identity criminals.
There are plenty of reasons to support the opposition of SB60. One way is to hold Swarzenegger to a campaign promise.
________________________________________________________
Today, and each day this week, we need all of our national volunteers to make one important call and send one e-mail. WE NEED ALIPACers IN ALL STATES TO RESPOND TO THIS NEED IN CALIFORNIA!
The myth that the Real ID Act was designed to stop illegal aliens from receiving licenses was destroyed, when TN started giving illegals Real ID compliant licenses two years ago, and again this year when defamed Governor Eliot Spitzer tried to give Real ID compliant licenses to illegals.
Refresher Video ALIPAC on CBS fighting Spitzer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7fhE_VclAY
We won in TN and NY state by stopping their plans to give illegals Real ID Compliant licenses. Some ALIPACers support Real ID and others do not, but we want to make sure that everyone knows Real ID is not designed to stop illegals from getting licenses. It is most likely that Real ID is your new continental ID.
The California legislature has passed SB 60 which will give illegals licenses. The bill now goes to the Governor's desk to be signed.
If the Governor signs this bill, California will become the first state in America to pass a law in 2008 establishing a benefit for illegal aliens. It will also become the first example reversing the trend of cutting licenses off from illegal aliens. In the last year, ALIPAC has helped to reverse state policies of giving licenses to illegals in Oregon, Michigan, and Maine.
The pro-amnesty crowd in California is responding to growing pressures on the license front!
We need you to call and e-mail Governor Schwarzenegger and remind him of his campaign promise NOT TO GIVE LICENSES TO ILLEGAL ALIENS!
Please use this contact information and review our sample message.
PLEASE CALL AND DELIVER YOUR MESSAGE BY PHONE AND THEN FOLLOW-UP WITH A WRITTEN LETTER, E-MAIL, or FAX for maximum impact. If you do not call, our chances of blocking this bill diminish greatly. Call and write!
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-445-2841
Fax: 916-558-3160
Email at:
http://gov.ca.gov/interact#contact
"Governor Schwarzenegger,
I am writing to ask you to veto SB 60 and to prevent illegal aliens from receiving any form of a driver license as you promised, when Californians elected you over Gray Davis. In fact, it was public anger against Gray Davis and licenses for illegal aliens that swept you into office! Over 80% of the American public does not want illegal aliens to receive ID, Licenses, or any taxpayer benefits from the state! That is why a historic number of states have passed laws cracking down on illegal immigration in 2008. Of the few remaining states that give licenses to illegal aliens, Oregon, Maine, Utah, and Michigan have all abandoned the process this year!
Please do not let California become the first and only state in 2008 to pass a law that defies the will of the vast majority of Americans by providing licenses or benefits for illegal aliens"
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http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-762374.html#762374
Senate
California Legislature
Gilbert A. Cedillo
SENATOR, TWENTY SECOND DISTRICT
SB 60 - The California Real ID Act of 2007
Fact Sheet
What is the problem?
In 2005, Congress passed and President Bush signed the Federal Real ID Act of 2005. The Act requires that states retool their system of issuing driver's license to ensure uniformity among all states and greater security regarding both the license itself and the identity of the person to whom it is issued. States must begin issuing Federal Real ID compliant licenses by May 2008.
California has a population of approximately 2 million undocumented immigrants who live and work in our state. In 1993, California stopped issuing driver's licenses to drivers that could not prove legal residency. Persons who can not show proof of legal residency currently drive on our roadways without being tested, licensed, or insured.
What does SB 60 do?
SB 60 conforms California law with the Federal Real ID Act of 2005.
First, SB 60 enables California to meet the minimum document design and security requirements set forth in the Act in order for driver's to have a federally recognized driver's license. These new federal requirements ensure, among other things, that all states have the same information about the driver on the license, ensure that the license is manufactured in a secure facility, and that the document itself has security features designed to prevent counterfeiting.
Secondly, SB 60 conforms California law to the minimum issuance standards of the Federal Real ID Act by requiring all applicants for a California driver's license to meet the minimum identity requirements for a federally recognized driver's license. These requirements include presentation by an applicant, and verification by the DMV, of a picture ID; a document showing a date of birth; proof of a social security number or verification that the person is not eligible; proof of address; and evidence of lawful status. Lawful status includes 1) citizens; 2) lawful permanent residents; 3) conditional permanent residents; 4) persons with approved applications of asylum; 5) persons with a valid, unexpired nonimmigrant visa; 6) persons with pending applications for asylum; 7) persons with a pending or approved application for temporary protected status in the U.S.; 8) persons with an approved deferred action status; and 9) persons with pending applications for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted. Applicants that have lawful status with documents 5) - 9) are eligible for temporary licenses that expire in 1 year but can be renewed upon verification, from the Department of Homeland Security, that the person's status has been extended. The DMV must verify all documents and the only foreign document that can be accepted is an official passport.
Further, SB 60 conforms California law to the optional provisions of the Federal Real ID Act by providing a "driving only license," that is not recognized by the federal government for identification purposes, and clearly states on its face that it cannot be used by any federal agency for federal identification or any other official purpose. This document must also have a unique design or color feature, as required by federal law. This "driving only license" is available to applicants that cannot meet the minimum identity requirements required for a federally recognized driver's license. Holders of this "driving only license" cannot use their license as identification to enter federal facilities, boarding federally regulated commercial aircraft, entering nuclear power plants or any other purpose as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Who supports SB 60?
Senator Gil Cedillo (Sponsor)
Senator Ron Calderon
Senator Gloria Romero
Senator Sheila Kuehl
Senator Jenny Oropeza
Assm. Mervyn Dymally
Assm. Tony Mendoza
Assm. Nell Soto
Assm. Joe Coto
AFSME
Bienestar Human Services, Inc.
CA Alliance for Retired Americans
CA Catholic Conference
CA Nurses Association
California School Employees Assoc. (AFL-CIO)
Casa Nicaragua
Gilmore Associates
Gray Panthers
JERICHO
Jovenes, Inc. /Youth, Inc.
Lambda Letters Project
LAUSD
MALDEF
Mexican American Community Services Agency, Inc.
National Association of Social Workers
Nisei Farmers League (NFL)
North Valley Sponsoring Committee
PICO California
Salvadoran-American Leadership and Education Fund
South Bay Latino Chamber of Commerce
Unite Here Local 11
Ventura County Agricultural Association
Yolo County Sheriff's Department
Office of the Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa
Personal Insurance Federation of California
Los Angeles Police Department
Consumer Attorneys of California
Latin American Agents Association
California Teachers Association
California ACORN
Mexican American Community Services Agency, Inc.
TWIC'ked OFF: Credential Offices Opening
Without a TWIC, your license is invalid. Don't think you can wait. This whole program has been plagued by confusion, delays, and poor communications, especially on the part of the USCG, who at the local level are barely up to speed on this issue. I still see Internet forums with captains quoting local CG personel that they won't need a TWIC. Do not make the mistake of going to the USCG for advice about the TWIC. The USCG has made their official position very clear with the NVIC quoted above.Friends don't let friends get TWIC'ked off and drive, fly or maneuver dangerous machinery.
Call your local AFL-CIO or transport union today and demand justice. This is your identity *$@damm%!! YOU ONLY GET ONE!! SAY NO TO TWIC WHILE YOU CAN!!
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