I had to get my driver's license renewed, a routine task. That should be easy.
NOT! There's a new requirement.
If you want to be able to board a plane for even
domestic travel,
[[or enter certain federal facilities, military bases, or nuclear facilities,) you now need a "REAL-ID." To get a REAL-ID, you need "a certified U.S. birth certificate with a stamp or raised seal,
[[or a valid, unexpired U.S. passport or passport card, or other approved citizenship or legal presence document.)"
I have no passport. I actually have my
original birth certificate, a large, ornate, laminated document signed by the attending physician, with raised seal. It even has my own baby footprints on the back. I was born in California.
The Michigan Secretary of State would not accept that birth certificate as proof of citizenship because it was issued by the hospital rather than by the State of California.
I'm pretty sure the attending physician was an eye-witness to my birth and I'm pretty sure no agent of the State of California was present.
So which document should carry more authority? Yeah, I can get one from the State
but come on guys!
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
<sigh>
So this U.S. citizen may be restricted from boarding domestic flights.
What has become of this country?
If I ever get "disappeared," check the immigrant detention facilities for my body. :rolleyes: