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...local man was arrested on Tuesday afternoon for piggybacking into Cabot House and stealing cash, an iPod and a Harvard ID card before Cabot residents notified the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD...
...hardest hit, by far. Besides the requirement to prove legal status in order to qualify for a driver's license, the bill would raise new barriers for asylum seekers and strip away judicial review of many federal deportation orders against immigrants. All of which helps explain how such controversial ID standards could pass into law. Many Republicans who would normally oppose anything that smacks of a national ID have rolled over in exchange for the immigration controls...
Finally, a clever political trick vanquished any remaining opponents. Republicans wrapped the ID changes into a bill that provides $82 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That is the same kind of bill that Senator John Kerry voted for and then against in 2003, to his eternal regret. "There may be some things you don't like [in the bill], but you will vote for it," says Republican Representative Tom Davis of Virginia, one of the architects of the changes, explaining why he thinks it will pass. President George W. Bush has vowed to sign the measure, partly...
...proposed mandates represent another blow to states' rights that may ultimately stir up the federalist wing of the G.O.P., which is unhappy with the massive new education and homeland-security burdens imposed by Washington on the rest of the country. The suggested ID changes are particularly bold, since the 9/11 reform bill passed in December asked state officials to come together on their own to craft national standards for driver's licenses. A 16-person commission had been merrily doing that until it got a letter last week from the feds suspending its operation. "There are legitimate concerns about undermining...
National security is a federal responsibility, as Jeff Lungren, a spokesman for bill sponsor Republican Representative James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, points out. For that very reason, though, a national ID might have been cleaner. There would be no need to rely on DMV workers, a few of whom have been known to sell driver's licenses for the right price. "Instead of pretending we are not creating national ID cards when we obviously are, Congress should carefully create an effective federal document that helps prevent terrorism--with as much respect for privacy as possible," Alexander wrote...