http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0217/p03s01-uspo.html?s=hns
Daniel B Wood
"The 'Real ID' bill does not force states to comply, but if they don't, state licenses cannot be used to board airplanes in the US, open bank accounts, or enter federal buildings. 'We think this bill is all to the good, because we have argued for a long time that driver's licenses are the de facto IDs for this country,' says Ira Mehlman, Los Angeles spokesman for the Federation of American Immigration Reform. 'We need to be careful who gets them and we ought to know who gets them and that they are not in the country illegally.'"
