PATRIOT III may be attached to Iraq approp bill

I've been googling the Real ID Act and it appears it will be attached to an appropriations bill, probably the Iraq appropriations bill.

Tell your Senator that if PATRIOT III (AKA The Real ID Act) is part of the Iraq appropriations bill they better stop it from ever coming to a vote.

Worthless POSs.

I was just wondering what was happening with that.

-wildflower

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I was looking at this Yahoo article:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/oneworld/20050210/wl_oneworld/45361030131108013808

ID Card Proposal Denounced from Left and Right

<<Yet another provision of the Real ID Act would make it possible to deport long-term, lawful permanent residents for providing humanitarian support to organizations that the government labels terrorist, even when such support was completely legal at the time it was provided.>>

Are they talking about U.S.-born citizens?

-wildflower

The are immigrints that can pretty much live here as long as they wish as long as the keep out of trouble.

For some reason I hadn't realized before that there was right-wing opposition.

<<Rightwing members of the coalition opposing the bill also objected to the requirement of corroborative evidence in asylum cases. Such a requirement, according to a recent Washington Times article by former Republican Rep. Bob Barr and Larry Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America, would (force) Christians and others fleeing persecution to provide written corroboration from the very officials they are fleeing.

As with provisions of the USA Patriot Act, the Real ID Act is opposed by an exceptionally diverse coalition that, in addition to the ACLU and refugee rights groups, includes Amnesty International; the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the oldest and largest Irish-American group; the American Conservative Union; the Free Congress Foundation; the Republican Liberty Caucus; Episocpal Migration Ministries; the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; Human Rights First; and the September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, among others.>>

-wildflower

I thought that George Lucas was the only one that skipped numbers. ;)