This morning’s Court Index has an Associated Press article about many of the nation’s governors are warning that “motorists are going to see costs skyrocket for driver’s licenses and motor vehicle offices forced to operate like local branches of the FBI.”
“The (REAL ID Act) that passed in June goes beyond an earlier measure that sought to standardize state driver’s licenses, requiring that states verify license applicants are American citizens or legal residents,” the article says. (bill summary)
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson commented that the new law unconstitutionally infringed on state laws in several areas, including his own where illegal immigrants have been able to get licenses, and that it would be challenged on those grounds.
About half of the states in the nation require license applicants to be U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents, but ten states, New Mexico included, explicitly grant licenses to illegal immigrants in an effort to improve road safety, according to a Financial Times article this morning. Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky’s statutes.
Noah Leavitt at FindLaw, last May, wrote an article entitled “The REAL ID Act: How it violates U.S. treaty obligations, insults international law, undermines our security, and betrays Eleanor Roosevelt’s legacy,” which might be interesting to some.
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