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| Author: | Martha [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Indiana wants more identification to get state ID |
http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/ ... 396736.txt Indiana wants more identification to get state ID By Gregory Tejeda Times Correspondent | Wednesday, July 08, 2009 | (11 comment(s)) Applying for an Indiana driver’s license or state identification card will now require more stringent proof of identity, a change one Latina activist said could keep non-citizens living in Indiana from driving legally. Under a program that state Motor Vehicles officials are calling “Secure ID,†people will now be required to show a valid Social Security number and proof of identity consisting of a birth certificate or passport. If they are not U.S. citizens, they would have to show their visa. Bureau of Motor Vehicles spokesman Dennis Rosebrough said the change is designed more to impact U.S. citizens. “Foreign nationals probably have the least amount of change under this new program,†he said. But Alicia Rios, a Midwest vice president for the Latin American League of United Citizens, said the change that is set to take effect in 2010 will cause problems for the growing Latino population in the area, largely because those who are not U.S. citizens will not have a usable birth certificate or passport. And as for the visa, many of the people living in the Region for whom this is an issue have not yet received the document. “There are people who are ‘in between,’ they’re here but they haven’t been issued the document yet,†Rios said. “This is going to make things more difficult for many people.†Mexico’s government recently had its Chicago consulate set up a temporary facility in East Chicago to help Mexican citizens living in the area get their papers in order. Based on the turnout at that facility, Rios said that as many as 600 East Chicago residents and 1,000 Lowell residents, and perhaps as many as 3,000 people across Lake County, would fall into her “in between†status. Rosebrough said the change, which was announced at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles offices in Indianapolis this morning , is intended to crack down not on immigration, but on identity theft. He said that driver’s licenses have become the most common form of identification card used by people, and that Indiana wants to ensure as much as possible that the people the state is issuing cards to are who they say they are. “Identity theft is the fastest-growing crime in the U.S., and we want to do something to stop it,†said Rosebrough. But Rios said she thinks there are other steps Indiana could take to reduce identity theft, and she would like to have LULAC get involved in trying to find such alternatives. “They need to rethink this change to come up with a way that won’t negatively impact people,†she said. |
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| Author: | karent [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Indiana wants more identification to get state ID |
Radio said this would be for just the first time you get a license, beginning next year, I think. |
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| Author: | freetime [ Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Indiana wants more identification to get state ID |
Last time I got a drivers license a couple of years ago, I had to have those things. Question: Does the new Indiana license contain an RFID chip, by any chance? |
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