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Old Jan 26, 2008 | 6:50 am
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Originally Posted by CLELOSER
Only US citizens may use US drivers licenses. Now if I get one from Ontario Canada, or Australia(where my wife originates), I will accept it because I know what they look like. Everyone else needs to show a passport. No i don't check if everyone with American drivers licenses are American citizens. It also keeps someone out of selectee status if they have a "BAD" passport, but has a "good" American drivers license.
There is no way to check and see, with most US licenses, if the holder is a citizen (I have plenty of non-citizen friends and family with US licenses). What would you do to check, ask? Then they say yes with some accent you find odd so you ask for a passport.... That is the most inane thing I've read on here in a while. You can go to google an type 'fakeid' and see the various companies that will produce one a drivers license with all security features "as a novelty item only". The passport is slightly more secure than that.

Is the entire American TSA leadership organisation that comes up with this nonsense full of feckless hacks?

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