MD Faces Music on Drivers Licenses - Janice Kephart
April 24, 2009
By Janice Kephart
What is equally noteworthy is the outpouring of support for the measure by Maryland residents. In a small and anecdotal measure of interest in the issue, the Washington Post story Md. Lawmakers Propose Compromise on Immigrant Licenses on April 13, 2009 - published on the eve of the compromise - garnered 34 comments, with 30 strongly supporting the notion that people here unlawfully be barred from receiving Maryland driver's licenses. A Frederick (Md.) News-Post story, License law dominates final day in a local news source counted at 44 comments, with 40 in favor of the license law, and four against. In 2007, a national Zogby poll indicated that 70 percent of Americans were in favor of more secure ID issuance, and were willing to make sacrifices to support those measures. If Maryland is any indication of grassroots sentiment, those numbers could very well be rising, not receding.
Maryland has done something important: admitted they need the requirements of REAL ID and lawful presence for the good of the state. Will the federal government listen? Or will it ignore Maryland's important strides by supporting legislation that guts secure ID issuance? With whispers that a measure to effectively repeal REAL ID will be introduced in the Senate any day now, we shall see.
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