Playing The Id Card
Among its many other effects, September 11 turned out to be a wake-up call for a national-identification movement. After all, seven of the 19 hijackers had used Virginia’s “we’ll take your word for it” approach to obtain cards (the state has since fixed the loophole). Other hijackers had no problem obtaining driver’s licenses from other states. And several of them had entered the country under false pretenses–a sign that our immigration system has serious ID flaws....