Fed license needed for travel? (airplane, 2014, review, drivers)
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I had a passport 50 years ago when I was an Air Force brat. Didn't ever need one to go to Mexico - before fake 9/11 - and see no reason to procure a document with an RFID chip in it. I don't plan on leaving this rock for any reason.
You need an ID - passport, driver's license, etc. I've used my state issued concealed carry permit before.
You don't need a "fed license", not even sure what you are talking about. There is no "new type driver's license".
Thank you everyone for your answers. Here in Delaware a few years ago they began issuing a new type Driver's license which we were told would be needed for airline or train travel here in the U.S. To get it we must take Birth Certificate and proof of residence along with the license we are renewing to DMV and get the new style or just renew the old one. You need to look closely to see the difference.
We ran into those checkpoints in Arizona. Our FL DL's worked just fine as ID. No need to pack a passport when driving cross country along I-10 with ZERO need or intention of entering Mexico. I'm more inclined to carry it if I'm going to visit my sister-in-law in Buffalo in case we decide to cross into Canada to get Labatt Blue.
DL works with the internal checkpoints. The Federal Government is NOT yet insisting on internal passports. However, with my last passport (prior to RFID) I was taken to the little room at border crossing everytime. Even the Canadians were taking me to their version of the little room.
When I got the RFID passport all that nonsense stopped. I start getting searched, but it all stops as soon as my passport is scanned.
Likewise in Arizona, I suspect the internal checkpoints are scanning for RFID passports. There are scanning for damn well everything else!!! We breeze right through the checkpoints as long as our passports are in the vehicle. Do not even have to show them!!
We have been coast to coast, border to border many times, never carried any special documents, just state drivers license (not enhanced),etc. We do carry passports when crossing the border.
I disagree. My mother flies once a year to come to visit me. She is in her 80's and her passport expired several years ago. She will NEVER leave the US again, in fact I'm not sure she'll even fly again. No reason for her to go through the process and expense for a passport.
There you have it. Annerk's mother doesn't need a passport so nobody else in the usa needs one, either.
If you are not in the driver's seat of a private car, Americans do not need any ID at all to move about inside the borders of the country. If you are on foot or a passenger in a vehicle, police can ask you to verbally state your name and address, but cannot detain you any longer nor demand an answer to any more questions (unless they have probable cause to consider you a suspect for a particular crime or unlawful activity). Even Greyhound bus travel does not require any ID to buy a ticket and get on the bus, but your baggage may be inspected for security.
However, apparently, somebody has found language in the Constitutions to indicate that the founders wanted many of those constitutional rights nullified in the event the internal combustion engine ever got invented.
When I walk to the supermarket, I do not carry any ID at all. But I have my credit card, so in case of accident, authorities can figure out who I am.
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Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke
There you have it. Annerk's mother doesn't need a passport so nobody else in the usa needs one, either.
In her defense (something, as she knows, I rarely exercise), she was responding to a poster who made the blanket statement that "everyone should have a passport".
But I agree that every able-bodied person is well-advised to have a passport, if for no other reason than to escape from what might become a tyrannical police state (if it isn't already). Now, the cost of issuing a passport is lower than the cost of issuing a drivers license (in that no examiner, test course, medical test or photographic equipment is required), so the cost of a passport ought to be minimal, if not free. The Passport is a government-required document enabling a person to exercise the inalienable right to travel freely, and like the right to vote, any enabling documentation needs to be provided by the government without burdensome cost to the user. Instead of being a government cash cow, raking in over a billion dollars a year to meet let's-pretend security issues that get people elected..
It is always prudent to carry identification in case you had a medical emergency and were not conscious.
You will not get on an airplane without a photo ID.
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