REAL ID
Beginning March 26, 2018, the RMV is changing the way you get and renew your driver’s license and ID card.
REAL ID is a Federal Security Standard for IDs that was created in 2005 as a result of increased federal security measures after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
It is an additional layer of security for Massachusetts driver’s licenses or ID cards. You will not need a REAL ID until October of 2020.
What is REAL ID?
REAL ID is a Federal Security Standard for IDs that was created in 2005 as a result of increased federal security measures after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
It is an additional layer of security for Massachusetts driver’s licenses or ID cards.
Massachusetts has received an extension for when you need a REAL ID.
You will not need a REAL ID until October of 2020.
However, if you have an active passport, and don’t mind carrying it, you will never need a REAL ID. After October of 2020, you will be asked for a passport or REAL ID when you fly in the U.S. or enter certain federal buildings.
The RMV suggests you go online and renew your driver’s license or ID card as usual and then, decide if REAL ID is right for you in 2020.
REAL ID will be available beginning in March of 2018. However, if everyone applies at this time, it could cause very long wait times in RMV Service Centers.
Remember, you don’t need a REAL ID until October of 2020!
You will not need a REAL ID until October of 2020.
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REAL ID, Real Answers Wizard
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Border Patrol -
San Diego - 2017
WATCH: San Diego Teacher Detained for Refusing to Answer Border Patrol Questions
Facebook
A view of the New
Mexico Border Patrol checkpoint from the car of Shane Parmely, a San
Diego teacher who was detained with her children for more than an hour
for refusing to answer questions.
Shane Parmely posted a series of videos from the incident on Facebook on July 21, which have since gone viral, with some praising her actions as a protest of unjust practices by the Border Patrol and others calling her a traitor, un-American and and entitled, law-breaking liberal.
Parmely is an English learner support teacher with the San Diego Unified School District, according to her Linkedin profile.
Parmely can be seen in the video being stopped at the checkpoint and asked by an agent if she and her children are citizens. She asks the agent if they are crossing a border, and he says no. She then asks why she is being questioned about her citizenship and refuses to answer. The agent then says she is being detained for an immigration inspection.
“You are required to answer an immigration question,” the agent tells her. “You are not required to answer any other questions.”
Parmely responds, “So if I just come through and say, ‘Yes, I’m a citizen,’ I can just go ahead”
The agent said that if the agent is justified by the answer, he or she can allow the person to continue.
“So if I have an accent, and I’m brown, can I just say, ‘Yes,’ and go ahead or do I have to prove it?” she asked. “I have a bunch of teacher friends who are sick of their kids being discriminated against.”
The videos were filmed at a checkpoint several miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. Parmely said the checkpoint was on Interstate 10 west, past El Paso before Demming, New Mexico. A Supreme Court ruling found that Border Patrol agents are allowed to have checkpoints within 100 miles of the border and to ask questions about citizenship without warrants. The agents are allowed to detain a person at the checkpoint for only the time necessary for the person’s citizenship to be determined.
Parmely also posted another video on July 23 that she forgot to post on Friday.
“Turns out 2 other cars also refused to answer and were detained that day. We only saw brown people get asked to show papers,” she wrote in the caption of that video, which you can watch below:
In a statement to the San Diego Union-Tribune, Border Patrol spokesman Mark Endicott said:
Border Patrol checkpoints are a critical tool for the enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws. At a Border Patrol checkpoint, an agent may question a vehicle’s occupants about their citizenship, place of birth, and request document proof of immigration status, how legal status was obtained and make quick observations of what is in plain view in the interior of the vehicle.
During the course of the immigration inspection, if an occupant refuses to answer an agent’s questions, the agent may detain the driver for a reasonable amount of time until he or she can make a determination regarding the occupant’s immigration status.
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