Federal Register Public Comment to TSA on REAL ID

"Minimum Standards for Driver's Licenses and Identification Cards Acceptable by Federal Agencies for Official Purposes; Phased Approach for Card-Based Enforcement"

This is a public comment submitted to the Federal Register for A Proposed Rule by the Transportation Security Administration on 09/12/2024,

Deadline for this public comment period is 10/15/24. You are encouraged to submit your own comment regarding the permanent progress of the REAL ID Act.

ATTN: Department of Homeland Security c/o
George Petersen

Transportation Security Administration

1. 6 CFR Part 37

2. [Docket No. TSA-2023-0003]

3. RIN 1652-AA77

RE: SUBMISSION OF PUBLIC COMMENT / NPRM REAL ID 2025

Dear Administrator Petersen,

REAL ID has been kicked down the road successively and worn a variety of different masks over the long tenure of the law’s existence as a trojan legal rider on a Tsunami relief omnibus bill.  It is my conclusion as an advocate against this law that it should be sent back to Congress with a recommendation that it be repealed and all NPRM rescinded to the TSA going forward. The Department of Homeland Security has recently proven it cannot follow its own laws or regulations once given illegal foreign policy laundered orders to contradict domestic law enforcement missions and actions mandated to its broad base of public officers.

REAL ID regulations on domestic US citizens drivers’ license infrastructure were installed as a prohibition to non-lawful aliens flying, boarding airplanes without flyer identity. This was rammed through so that potential terrorists could be identified by their public lawful documents and denied boarding based on their State Department foreign policy bilateral agreements with their nation states.

Instead, REAL ID has become a boondoggle for DMV regulatory manufacturers, biometrics vendors and the DMVs themselves.  State DMVs will sell digital background information on CDL drivers, but they have, over the years, also relaxed the regulatory compliance internally for fair information practices for Rebecca’s Law conformance.  Ancillary digital partners sell parts and parcels of digital ID attributions to track the whereabouts of US citizens. Online cloud vendors, like Amazon’s Kickstarter, without really being a bank or 3^rd party creditor held to bank regulations to protect the interests of the consumer, demand digital versions of this US drivers license online. Embedded in their agreements is the ability to sell bits and pieces of that ID to anyone once its in the online environment.  If the cloud base is hacked – that’s it for REAL ID security downwind.

REAL ID in digital practice is illiberal and corrupt in its enforcement. It manufactures unnecessary national security vulnerability to American license holders. China and Nigeria still break into ten year old backdoors left open by the NSA to impact mobile security of US nationals now. So, this cavalier unfairness towards securing US private documents is sustained by the US government, as an aggression against the personal security of the US citizen.

REAL IDs cannot be secured once articles are digitized across mobile platforms. State DMVs have had increasing trouble securing digitized government identity articles even though they were mandated for procurement of public benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Those systems were hacked. Then they were used to authenticate fraud across many platforms. A hacker can easily steal the images from a mobile phone, even if you can present it successfully to the TSA, an insurer or a police officer.  

A REAL ID or EDL or conformant identity card document is the same as a citizenship card for a US domestic resident or national. The problem is that there is disparate treatment in the backswing of legal enforcement of REAL ID identity requirements at the State level. 

The motor voter rolls have been used in many States, like WA State, for automatic enrollment of foreign citizens to vote in elections.  It’s a deportable offense for any alien national to vote in our national elections and a 3^rd degree felony.  While this law has not helped remove the motor-voter administration flaw in the process, Republican lawmakers have never solved anything with REAL ID except, tertiary markets for insurance technology prospectors and federal identity and database pork projects for their States. This is seen by the consumer as a waste-abuse offense. Partisans want to use it to produce additional limits on election fraud. REAL ID is limited in that it will not fix motor-voter enrollment of noncitizens. The Secretary of State purges voter rolls.  If they won’t purge the rolls, the citizen would live with a Voter ID mandate that treats them as foreigners, while alien offenders stay on the voter registration rolls.

Donald Trump produced an immediate rush to cram regulations through to advance the cull of foreign national citizenship documents, converted to the lie that once you have the national’s documents all issues of query are settled around security and the TSA. He also said that State regulators would be required to make REAL ID optional for an operators license to drive a car in US States, providing for an opt-out. The State of Texas decided to observe the whole of REAL ID law and required citizenship document of US citizens at the window with no ability to opt out of the process.

7 years down the line with Texas REAL ID license mandates, a DHS flight program policy sponsored undocumented flyers, who intended to apply or applied for asylum, including large groups of unaccompanied minors later lost by HHS to numbers greater than 380,000, to fly to various locations around the United States. They were waved through TSA security checks and seated on flights with US citizens and other exclusively migrant attended chartered DHS flights to various US locations. This policy was appropriated to without suffering legal review or impacts to the rationale of REAL ID in context of domestic interior security; which is the apparent mission of DHS.  The flight programs were a breach of domestic US security law and contravened the security regulations required of the Department of Homeland Security to conform to US laws.

So, the US citizen has to provide the functional equivalent of an internal passport, remove shoes, X-ray all of the things and a full body X-ray scan of their entire body OR a pat down before being allowed to board a US flight to neighboring US State.  Biden’s CBP One applicants board flights with or without sufficient identity checks in many other cases. They decided to not be very transparent about the forensics of this policy shunt. Once One app asylum applicants left the plane they were not held in any probationary confines of their agreement.  They are in the wind. 

Again – no real digital security for the migrants either as this is in a cloud based mobile app. Anyone at the [NSO Group] could get their personal information. NSO Group tech is beholden to the export of the highest bidder. So CBP One has no human rights security value added if a refugee is a high value target for defecting to the West from say, China or Iran’s Islamist communist communities.

Meanwhile, the TSA bucks every effort of the US citizen to purge their post-flight X-Ray body profile and they live with an internal passport system in the United States of America, strident against their Constitutional contract for free travel and on par with Stasi paper checks going anywhere in the GDR.

So the US Department of Homeland Security has no right to continue to flag US citizens for comprehensive identity mandate checks on the speculation they are auditing the borders and human traffic of the skies with utmost care and efficiency to screen for terrorists. The US citizen is being treated as a prisoner to be made to account for whereabouts while flying and given excessively invasive identity requirements to capture/prove their citizenship identity in order to fly.  Crimes are being committed on the DHS ledger by and for the interests of communist directed transnational gangs and narco cartels now profiteering from lax security and brazen willful blindness at DHS during the Biden administration. 

The purpose of the REAL ID law is so undermined that DHS should rescind its mandates on US citizenship at the TSA for all its technology, records, infrastructure and federal appropriations and submit a request to repeal the law. They have in all actions annulled the purpose of this law to the jeopardy of US citizens.

The State Department had pre-existing requirements with foreign nations to apply for US domestic drivers licenses. They could administrate paperwork and enlistment strategy per diem with State DMVs without creating an internal passport for US citizens. We should not be treated as foreigners in our own nation of birth because there is corruption and confusion at State DMVs driven by competing tech vendor buzzards or it would manufacture work for the US State Department – a service agency for the US citizen abroad.

I thank you for your considerations of my comments in earnest.  May it evolve your work to achieve the rational mission of securing the domestic interior interests of United States of America.

Sincerely,

Sheila Dean, FKA, The 5-11 Campaign

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Austin, Texas