The following report is by Travel Pulse:
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced a final rule in the Federal Register allowing passengers to use driver’s licenses at airport security checkpoints and in entrances to federal buildings for identification until REAL ID enforcement begins on May 7, 2025.
Effective November 25, 2024, this final rule allows states to apply to TSA for a temporary waiver of certain REAL ID requirements written in the REAL ID regulations. Once approved, those states Mobile Driver’s Licenses (mDLs) will continue to be accepted at TSA airport security checkpoints.
TSA will publish a list of states on its websites where mDLs are approved for federal acceptance. After emerging industry standards and federal guidelines are finalized, TSA will issue a future rulemaking to set more comprehensive requirements for mDLs that will eventually replace waiver provisions established by this rule.
An mDL is a digital representation of a state-issued physical driver’s license that is typically installed through an application on the user’s smartphone and stored in a digital wallet, similar to how many users currently store their physical credit cards on their smartphones.
The information from the digital wallet is read after the smartphone is either tapped against an mDL reader or scanned under the reader to establish the validity of the mDL and a person’s identity.
Currently TSA accepts mDLs issued by 11 states at 27 participating airports and has a goal of accepting mDLs in all airports, by expanding the technology nationwide. Current states include Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, Ohio and Utah.
SEE: 12 States In The US Are Now Offering Digital IDs
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Federal News Network noted in a report that the TSA “noted that only about 56% of IDs in circulation as of January 2024 were REAL ID-compliant.” The outlet also noted that this new ruling further opens the doorway for greater use of mDLs, which are basically precursors to all-in-one digital IDs.
SEE: TSA Moves To Implement AI-Powered Facial Recognition At All 430 ‘Federalized’ Airports
Meanwhile illegals are subsidized without proper documentation, and the government knows everything about us any, but yet we still need to show more paperwork and IDs to travel. What a joke.
Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I will not comply.
Don’t have the real ID. I never will get one. I can still use my drivers license to board a domestic flight, but I would have to bring my passport card or passport with me as secondary form of ID. I could get the enhanced drivers license (it is not the real id license, but I can use it for Canadian and Mexican land border/maritime border crossings (something the real ID can’t do)).