Slog - Comments on Do This Now, Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle US city issues immigrant ID card: New Haven - best known as the home of Yale University - is offering the cards to all its residents, including to some 12,000 undocumented immigrants. City leaders say the plan will enable immigrants to open bank accounts and make them less vulnerable to crime. Issuing ID cards to illegal immigrants is an act of reason. Let the rural folk live and dissolve in mystery, myths, and other imaginings; we in the city must do reasonable things--that is our moral duty, being reasonable.... Copyright 2008 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:18:24 -0800 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:38:40 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Gitai Can't we just get them driver's licenses? I mean, wouldn't that be simple enough?

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768401 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768401 Media Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:36:30 -0800 Comment by no one in particular Yeah, Oregon allows all immigrants to get driver's licenses. Not very many states allow that.

But it's probably going to end soon. The new Real ID act passed by Congress says states must require proof of legal residence (among other requirements) if they want their licenses to valid for things like boarding airplanes and visiting federal office buildings.

Our Legislature ignored the issue this year, but it's likely they'll be forced to do something about it in 2008 and they may have to come up with a solution like New Haven's.

]]> no one in particular http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768495 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768495 Media Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:58:23 -0800 Comment by jonah the city already does something similar. it accepts the matricular consular as ID which is provided to Mexican citizens.

]]> jonah http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768496 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768496 Media Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:58:39 -0800 Comment by brandon jeez, charles. you never pass up an opportunity to slander the "rural folk", do you? i'm not even sure how it fits into this story, and yet you found a way to do just that.

as someone who grew up in one of the most rural reaches of the continental united states, i can assure you - not everyone who lives outside a major city is a complete idiot. and as someone who now lives in one of the most urban areas in the united states - not everyone who lives in the city is "reasonable".

]]> brandon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768498 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768498 Media Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:58:50 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I'm sure the WH is hard at work creating a RFID-enhanced yellow star for them to wear.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768702 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768702 Media Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:02:51 -0800 Comment by Gitai @2, 5 Real ID is dead in the water. State after state is refusing to comply. Fairly soon, you'll have to use a passport, since it'll be the only acceptable form of ID.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768713 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768713 Media Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:06:13 -0800 Comment by no one in particular BTW, I just read this article saying that New York City may do the same thing as New Haven.

Gitai@6: good to know. According to Wikipedia, "Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Carolina, Utah, and Washington have joined Maine in passing legislation opposing Real ID. A similar bill is pending in Massachusetts."

]]> no one in particular http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768782 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768782 Media Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:26:36 -0800 Comment by ChinaTown New Haven. Get it?

NEW.
HAVEN.

]]> ChinaTown http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768791 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768791 Media Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:30:01 -0800 Comment by ecce homo Charles is racist. That is why he hates "rural folks". In his home country, the "rural folks" were mostly white farmers (until mugabe either killed them or forced them off their lands). That bias is still with him.

]]> ecce homo http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768833 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768833 Media Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:46:56 -0800 Comment by elswinger The government should just offer free barcode tattoos.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768846 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768846 Media Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:53:20 -0800 Comment by charles ecce homo, you are an idiot from first to last. true, land has always been the issue in zimbabwe, but i was against removing white farmers because it meant a loss of black jobs. and besides, black banks owned the loans on those white farms. as for rural folks, anyone who has read me at all knows that i see them as social rather than racial group.

]]> charles http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768861 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768861 Media Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:58:17 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger We should all have a 666 on our foreheads to allow us to make purchases and such. I love Amerika!!!!

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768891 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c768891 Media Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:11:40 -0800 Comment by H Why would we do this? They are here illigaly.

And I think you should have to speak english to get a DL because reading road signs is helpful.

]]> H http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c769302 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c769302 Media Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:20:47 -0800 Comment by infrequent science and rural kids: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070725/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/rural_students

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c770106 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/do_this_now_seattle#c770106 Media Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:38:40 -0800