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Stop National ID bill!

The REAL ID provision was built into a must-pass appropriations bill in 2005 to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now a provision to make REAL ID permanent has been hidden in an immigration bill making its way through congress.

It is estimated that a national ID program will cost individual Americans 8 billion dollars and state governments as much as 14 billion more. Sixteen states have already voted against supporting a national ID program. Help stop REAL ID from robbing Americans of our freedom and privacy!

The Baucus-Tester and Grassley-Baucus amendments to the immigration bill strip out the REAL ID provisions. Contact your representatives and ask them to please support these amendments.

2007 June 26    |    11:52 pm       Privacy & You
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