Republicans would have us believe that terrorists and illegal immigrants won't drive if they can't get licenses. Actually, this bill is a thin wedge toward a national ID card.
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"The ACLU says the act threatens Americans' privacy by creating links between databases that could be used to make licenses into de facto national ID cards that could be used to track residents' activities."
Please ask your representatives to oppose H.R. 418. To dodge opposition, the administration is now trying to place it in the Afghanistan/Iraq Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Bill - H.R. 1268. Go to www.house.gov/writerep/. This will surely come to the Senate, so contact your senators as well.