Posted by 511CampaignTX on 04/29/09

Over 25 States in Legal Opposition of Real ID Act

AUSTIN - Texas legislators previously concerned about compliance deadlines may heave a sigh of relief as Department of Homeland Security announced it’s move to repeal the federal Real ID Act last week. Other legislators like, Rep. Carl Isett (TX-Lubbock), continue to join the national trend of states moving legislation to reject the federal mandate. Lack of federal funding, serious privacy and civil liberties concerns over Real ID’s regulations provoked 25 states to move legislation against the national ID program.

Representative Isett sponsors the Texas legislation opposing the comprehensive national ID program.  Isett sponsored identical legislation last session.

Real ID, passed as a rider on a Tsunami relief bill in 2005, suffered from a big brother reputation, technical networking inadequacies and state’s sticker shock over the price to build a centralized federal identity database from state fusion centers.

According to a report released last month from the DHS Inspector General, fusion centers across the U.S. are inadequately networked, non-existent or vastly underfunded to comply with the federal mandate for identity storage and national identity sharing.

“DHS did not provide timely and specific guidance on how REAL ID-compliant driver’s licenses and identification cards must be marked, best practices for the physical security of facilities, or information on the systems that will be used for verifying applicant documentation. To achieve full compliance with REAL ID standards by 2011, states must connect with electronic verification systems to verify identification documents. Several of the systems needed do not yet exist. Specifically, 18 of 19 states, or 95%, reported that available grant funding was insufficient. Several states referred to the amount received as a “drop in the bucket.”  - DHS Inspector Generals Report

During Texas 81st session legislators field concerns about Texans being refused passage into federal buildings and airports based on the program’s federal extension status.  According to staffers, DHS has been unclear about the extension standards until now. 

Texas’ federal Real ID extension for compliance will expire December 31, 2009.

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Posted by 511CampaignTX on 03/29/09

OPPOSE TX HB 4036, a bill in favor of the National ID

[ronpaul-14] TESTIFY AGAINST THE FEDERAL ID IN TX 3/30

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Paul Davis <sifu78704@gmail.com> Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:52 PM

To: ronpaul-14-announce@meetup.com
 

(PREPARE FOR MONDAY!!)

BY: Testifying Against HB 4036

AT: The Public Safety Hearing 2 PM Monday

          TEXAS CAPITOL Rm E2.014

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/schedules/html/C4202009033014003.HTM

Testimony must be delivered in person the day and time of the hearing.
 

HOW YOU CAN TESTIFY AGAINST THE FEDERAL ID in TEXAS

::::click here::::

WHY TESTIFY?

Identity concerns everyone. The federal Real ID has changed names many times over in the guises of Enhanced Drivers Licenses and Passport cards and is seeking another face in Public Safety Chairman Tommy Merritts bill, HB 4036.

HB 4036

    *     Indicates nationality or citizenship on licenses, hence nationalizing identity cards

    *     Adds biometric facial files to your license

    *     Maintains the build of the national identity database

If you privacy, identity security, personal sovereignty and the Constitution concerns you, please offer your testimony during this crucial and important hearing. This is your opportunity to change the destiny of identity in Texas.

 

Dear 5-11 Supporters,

There's a lot going on at the Capitol and the identity situation has been ratcheted up to where people can now openly discuss the federal ID issue.  If anyone is interested in testifying in favor or against Texas' version of the federal ID, please attend  Monday's hearing at the Capitol upon adjournment or after 2PM 3/30.   See details below

I hope everyone will listen to next week's KOOP program, Waking Up Orwell on Thursday from 2:30 -3:00 PM, we will have Jim Guest, Legislators Against Real ID on the program to discuss the build of Fusion Centers, or the big databases where identity information begins to aggregate  from state-to-federal at the genesis hub in Kanasas City, MO.

They are also known as Information Analysis Centers.  Unfortunately, there has been communication, issued from DHS Information Analysis Centers (DIAC), targeting Libertarians, Ron Paul supporters and those in support of the Constitution issued with specific determinations, such as: those who oppose the use of RFID technology are to be regarded as terrorists and enemies of the State. 

Missouri's high profile incident exposed DIAC's communication to states about these things and they have now recanted.   http://www.news-leader.com/article/2009903260388 

We hope you see what this is and will speak up for yourself and others in these cases. Which leads me to tell you, do not be afraid to oppose the federal ID, they cannot levy a consequence against you or label you as a terrorist.  Please do speak up. You may not have this chance to speak again.

THE CALL TO ACTION

We have many Texas legislators across the spectrum from many different committees who agree with our positions and oppose this.  However, the specific decisions on licenses starts with the Public Safety Committee.

We need to support Rep. Tryon,  Rep. Bernaum, Rep. Rodriguez and Vice Chair, Rep. Frost in standing with us against the federal ID in the Public Safety Committee.  

By reputation, Public Safety Chairman, Rep. Tommy Merritt is a reasonable man, but we should offer solutions in exchange for the problems he and all of us contend with.

I believe the entire committee should hear from our constituency on this matter.

Here are their contacts:

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/Committees/MembershipCmte.aspx?LegSess=81R&Cm
teCode=C420

Committee on Public Safety (C420)    Clerk: Paul Kamprath

Legislature: 81(R) - 2009    Phone: (512) 463-0133

Appointment Date: 2/12/2009    Room: EXT E2.146

Chair:    Rep. Tommy Merritt : 512-463-0750

Vice Chair:   Rep. Stephen Frost :  512- 463-0902

Members:   

Rep. Lon Burnam : 512-463-0740

Rep. Joe Driver : 512-463-0574

Rep. Phil King:  512-463-0738

Rep. Tryon D. Lewis : 512-463-0546

Rep. Barbara Mallory Caraway : 512-463-0664

Rep. Eddie Rodriguez : 512-463-0674

Rep. Hubert Vo : 512-463-0568

OPPOSE TX HB 4036, a bill in favor of the National ID

(PREPARE FOR MONDAY!!)

BY: Testifying Against HB 4036

AT: The Public Safety Hearing 2 PM Monday

          TEXAS CAPITOL Rm E2.014

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/schedules/html/C4202009033014003.HTM

Testimony must be delivered in person the day and time of the hearing.

IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS CALL 512-687-4069

511Campaign.org

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Posted by 511CampaignTX on 02/25/09

AUSTIN- According to a staffer for Texas State Representative Richard Pena Raymond, DPS approached the Vice Chair of the Appropriations committee for funding to implement Real ID in the State of Texas and was firmly denied.

Posted by 511CampaignTX on 02/18/09

Friends of Liberty,

It is time to go to the phones.

The 5-11 Campaign is very close to filing our Concurrent Resolution to stop RFIDs and biometric identifiers from landing in our licenses.   We have approached both the Senate and the House to file a Concurrent Resolution in order for Texas to reject the federal Real ID Act’s dangerous regulations.

However, 5-11 needs your help.  We can stop Real ID if we can get one sponsor to file our bill.  

We have asked the Technology Committee to stand behind our legislation because of the dangers in the RFID chips, the biometrics and the insecure dissemination of our information at United States borders in North America.

Representative Mark Strama serves the constituents of North Austin and is the Chair of the Technology Committee.  We have asked Representative Strama to file our legislation and to move forward on behalf of identity protections where dangerous and costly technologies are concerned.

If you are a constituent in the North Austin area, we need you to give Rep. Strama a respectful call in favor of stopping this fascist National ID.

You may want to say something like this:

 

“Please sponsor 5-11’s legislation for the State of Texas to oppose Real ID based on privacy, identity security and the 10th Amendment. We should not waste Texas’ tax money on building insecure databases and federal infrastructures.”

You may phone Rep. Strama’s office : (512) 463-0821

Rep. Strama may not represent you.  You can still call your local representative and ask them to co-sponsor or to support  the Concurrent Resolution to oppose Real ID.

FIND YOUR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE HERE:  http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/

If you are a constituent of any of these other Technology Committee Members, please phone them asking to support our resolution to oppose Real ID.

If you are NOT a constituent of any of these members, but still want to support our work, call the 

Technology Committee Clerk: Laurie McAnally (512) 463-0794 .  

These are House Representatives in the Technology Committee

Chair:

Rep. Mark Strama  :  512-463-0821
 

Vice Chair:

Rep. Tan Parker : Capitol (512) 463-0688 , District Office (972) 724-8477
 

Members:

Rep. Fred Brown : Capitol (512) 463-0698 , District Office (979) 822-9797

Rep. Angie Chen Button :Capitol (512) 463-0486 , District Office (972) 234-8980

Rep. Rob Eissler : Capitol (512) 463-0797 , District Office (281) 681-9655

Rep. Dan Gattis : Capitol (512) 463-0309 , District Office (512) 863-5697

Rep. Patricia Harless : Capitol (512) 463-0797 , District Office (281) 376-4114

Rep. Allan Ritter  : Capitol (512) 463-0706 , District Office (409) 729-3228

Rep. Eddie Rodriguez : Capitol/District  (512) 463-0674 

THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR HELP.

Posted by 511CampaignTX on 02/02/09

Dear Liberty Minded Activists,

E-verify is how the government will sift who works and who doesn't.  The Stimulus plan wants to subsidize it.

Please read the plan to subsidize E-Verify with our own money.  Contrary to popular belief E-Verify is not a DONE DEAL.  They need your money to move it forward.  Please work with fiscally conservative house and senate representatives to express your need to work without a surveilled identity, discrimination based on your credit status and legal history.  So many people have lost ground in these dark financial days.  E-Verify seeks to keep people who make an honest living separated from qualifying for work based legislated identity.  

Please read this letter below and call the appropriate parties to stop this assault on the working identity.

Sheila Dean 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: American Policy Center <American_Policy_Center@mail.vresp.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:36 PM
Subject: SLEDGEHAMMER: Tell Senators to Keep E-Verify out of Stimulus Bill!
To: beatthechip@gmail.com

APC SLEDGEHAMMER ACTION ALERT From the American Policy Center Tom DeWeese - President 70 Main Street, Suite 23 Warrenton, VA 20186 www.americanpolicy.org Urgent Action Alert! Tell Senators to keep E-Verify out of Stimulus Bill! Everyone knows the "stimulus" package is a fraud, loaded with every Socialist's shopping list. The package will fund everything from Amtrak, to climate change research, to a new version of Hitler Youth (Americorp). But hidden down in its depths is something even worse - Government control of hiring called E-Verify. The Congress couldn't pass this dangerous legislation on its own, so as usual supporters tack their trash on to "must pass" legislation.  Worse, those supporters are being helped by powerful forces who are selling this monstrosity as a must-have tool to stop illegal immigration. They are lying! E-Verify will do NOTHING to stop illegal immigration.  We must stop E-verify!! Here are the facts: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (HR1, S336), or so-called economic stimulus bills, contain an earmark to renew the fatally flawed E-Verify program in the United States for another five years beyond it's scheduled expiration date in March of this year. This very dangerous program must be stricken from any Senate version of the stimulus bill.  E-Verify has nothing to do will illegal immigration and everything to do with global surveillance and total government control of your lives. The Senate loves immigration reforms, but E-Verify must be stopped, and we cannot do it without your help! E-Verify is grossly ineffective in its stated purpose, and as APC has written many times already, E-Verify, once fully-implemented as intended, will require every true American citizen to first receive approval from their federal government before they may be employed in their own country. NO GOVERNMENT, not local, state, or national, must ever be given total control over whether American citizens can support themselves and their families! Independent analysis of existing government databases have found unacceptably high error rates. Currently those voluntarily using E-Verify have experienced near double-digit error rates.  Now, this new bill will force more than 7 million employers to verify the legal status of more than 160 million current employees, as well as the millions of future hires. That means that potentially, as many as 17 million citizens and legal US residents will be mistakenly found "ineligible" to work. Besides, illegals and those employers wishing to hire them can simply work under the table, paying cash, hiding the transaction from any official source. Illegals don't regularly file income taxes, so the hire isn't hard to hide.  The fact is, illegal immigration is happening because the U.S. government refuses to do its job to secure the border and stop the flood of illegal aliens from rushing across it. Even though Congress has passed legislation demanding that a fence be built, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is dragging its feet, holding up the project. Moreover, DHS is fighting efforts in local communities to allow police to arrest illegals. There is little effort to tighten visa security, or allow law enforcement to track down and deport those who stay here past their allotted time. Those illegals caught committing crimes are still allowed to leave, only to easily and surreptitiously return at their will. The border is a sieve. There is no border control - period.  Rather than work to strengthen the borders and take steps to stop illegals from getting here in the first place, many now seek "internal enforcement" rather than the "rule of law." In other words, take action after leaving the barn door open.  Instead of doing its job, government now wants to put all the blame and responsibility on American business. Jobs, they say, are the draw to illegals, so business should be the first line of defense. This may sound appealing, but it can have dire consequences if a nation desires to remain free.  Through use of the E-Verify program, an electronic employment verification (EEV) program, DHS proposes employers check the Social Security databases to verify Social Security Numbers to determine if someone is a US citizen. Yet everyone should know by now how thoroughly compromised the Social Security Administration is; identity theft is probably the U.S.'s largest growth industry. The federal government has proven it has no ability to safeguard the records in its current databases. And the more databases established, the more opportunity for theft. Recently, federal employees have been caught "sneaking a peek" at the passports of a large number of celebrities and even presidential candidates including Barack Obama, John McCain and Hillary Clinton.  Moreover, illegal immigration is big business for some very bad people. They have the means to collect social security numbers (think about all those reports of laptops containing personal records including SS numbers being stolen out of cars and air ports). It's not hard. But if your life depends on its security, then E-Verify is your worst nightmare.  In August of this year, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) lost a laptop computer which contained the records of 33,000 people who had signed up for its pre-screening program, designed to give travelers quicker access through airport security. The unencrypted information in the database included names, addresses, driver's license numbers, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, Alien registration numbers, and current credit card numbers. E-Verify is a sick joke; it not only does not guarantee an applicant has legal authority to work in our country, but legal employees are the ones who will suffer most. If, when applying for a job, a legal American's name is thrown out of the system, the potential employee has only 8 days to fix the problem. That means taking time to go to the Social Security Office, between the hours of 8:30am and 5:00pm, Monday thru Friday and sitting in an overcrowded, overwhelmed office waiting for a bureaucrat to maybe fix the problem. If they don't do this they will be fired from their job. This is not how a free society operates. One of the greatest threats from establishment of a system such as E-Verify is the creation of perhaps unintended results. As Cato's Jim Harper surmises, "The things to make a system like this impervious to forgery and fraud would convert it from an identity system into a cradle-to-grave biometric tracking system."  "Mission Creep" is the commonly used description for a program designed for a specific purpose, but is later used for much more. A prime example of mission creep is the Social Security System itself. It was designed specifically as a means for people to deposit money into a government program to provide for their retirement years. Today, there are those who want to take its databank of users and transform it into an identity system to prove American citizenship, using the excuse, "Well, it's already there!" That's mission creep.  As reported in the beginning, DHS Secretary Chertoff intends to increase the E-Verify system to include biometric photographs and extended databases. On numerous occasions Secretary Chertoff has expressed his desire to create a national identification card that would include near complete information on its bearer. This would include job, medical, tax, and school records. It would also include biometric and facial recognition, with RFID microchips that could monitor the whereabouts of every American. E-Verify is one tentacle of the octopus that will be global biometric identification cards and total global surveillance and control! Is it worth it for Americans to endure an existence in a well-controlled matrix of surveillance simply to catch some illegal workers? Communities across the nation are proving that illegals will stop coming here - in fact actually leave - if they are made to feel unwelcome.  E-Verify sets the stage for a national workforce management system with which government can decide who works and who doesn't. It is designed to ultimately subject all Americans to an intrusive global surveillance system as the information in DHS databanks is being transferred to international systems through such DHS partners as American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The federal government has been given the mandate by the people to close the borders and keep them out. It doesn't require cradle-to-grave biometric tracking of every legal American to accomplish that task. Facts show that such "internal enforcement" would not reduce the illegality, it would promote it.  Border security combined with real efforts by the government to keep illegals out of the country will do much more to stop the flood than by chaining American citizens to massive, all knowing surveillance data banks. In short, E-Verify is part of an emerging surveillance state that can and must be stopped now - before it's too late! ACTION TO TAKE We must counter the massive E-Verify Support effort now flooding Capitol Hill. We must call the Senate and demand that the E-Verify provisions in the stimulus package be removed (Frankly, telling them to trash the whole stimulus package is the best idea, but at least E-Verify must be removed). Contact Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Tell him to keep E-Verify, or any component by any name, out of S 331. You can phone Senator Reid at (202) 224-3542, fax him at (202) 224-7327, or email him via this web form. Contact Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Tell him to keep E-Verify, or any component by any name, out of S 331.  You can phone Senator McConnell at (202) 224-2541, fax him at (202) 224-2499, or email him via this web form. Contact your Senator. Tell them to keep E-Verify, or any component by any name, out of S 331. You may reach your Senators by calling (202) 224-2131. A switchboard operator will connect you directly with the Senate office you request. Visit the American Policy Center website SEND THIS MESSAGE TO AT LEAST TEN MORE PEOPLE! APC is now offering you a quick and easy way to multiply your efforts and help win more battles! Simply click here to send this APC Action Alert to up to TEN of your friends! It's fast, it's easy and most of all, it's extremely effective in KILLING OPPRESSIVE POLICIES!

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Posted 03/06/09 mich3spell Griffin, GA

Isn't E-Verify for immigrants, to show they have the right to work in the states?