The U.S. government saw a problem. The U.S. government spent 20 years creating a solution to that problem at a significant burden to the people. The U.S. government made certain that this burdensome solution in no way solves the problem.

This story, which has probably played out a thousand times in the last century, is the story of the Real ID.

The Real ID story begins in the summer of 2001, in a northern Virginia neighborhood known as Bailey’s Crossroads. At the Culmore shopping center, an illegal immigrant looking for day labor outside a 7-Eleven named Luis Martinez-Flores was approached with an unusual........

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