I urge you to vote against HR 1268, the emergency appropriations bill that is
currently before the Senate, because the conference committee have inserted
into this bill the language of the REAL ID Act.   The REAL ID Act, which was
previously approved by the House as HR 418 but not passed by the Senate, would
force state motor vehicle departments to become de facto extensions of the
federal immigration service.  By denying driving licences to undocumented
immigrants, it would increase the numbers of uninsured drivers.  Perhaps most
frighteningly, its requirements for data standardisation and data sharing would
lay the groundwork for a national identification card, abridging the privacy of
innocent people.  The Senate shouldn't allow itself to be bullied into approving
this strikingly counterproductive legislation.