Thread: Support H.R.220 - Common Sense About Identity Theft & RE

New Federal Driver's License Regs Will Put Burden On States

[ Return To Senator Roy Dyson's Newsletter ]
Posted on July 13, 2007:
Another federal mandate is threatening to affect state legislatures all across the country including Maryland.

Federal legislation passed in 2005 states that after December 31, 2009, "a Federal agency my not accept, for any official purpose, a driver's license or identification card issued by a state to any person unless the state in meeting the requirements" specified in the Real ID Act."

REAL ID as it is known seems like a good idea at first. But as they say, the devil is in the details. We all want to do everything we can to prevent terrorism, identity theft and fraud.

This legislation's intent was to do just that. However, it has become incredibly burdensome and difficult for state departments of motor vehicles to implement.

While Maryland is preparing to implement the REAL ID requirements, the General Assembly needs to pass legislation put some or all of these requirements into place. This is where the problem gets difficult. By law, Maryland's Motor Vehicle Administration must pay for such new systems through user fees such as increased driver's licenses, learner's permits or identification cards.

Our driver's license and registration fees for our motor vehicles are already too high. This federal mandate which would make it extremely inconvenient for all of us - especially the elderly to get the card for all of us, but it mostly affects the poor and the elderly.

The REAL ID act requires individuals to show up in person at their local motor vehicle office in person and present original identity documents such as Social Security numbers, birth certificates or other forms proving your identity.

One such scenario that was presented to me is that many senior citizens have no way to gain access to their birth certificates which may never have been recorded or lost for good because of bookmaking errors of a bygone error.

It is also difficult for seniors to get out to their local MVA office, much less spend a lot of time there which a lot of states that have already begin issuing REAL ID's are already doing.

If Maryland does not become fully compliant with this federal mandate by 2009, the already difficult, frustrating and aggravating trip to airport will become even more ponderous.

There is talk, generated by the states that this federal legislation,

One complaint people have about Maryland's MVA is one that I share.

But what has the homeland security czar been doing, besides monitoring his belly? While Chertoff was sharing details of his physical distress over the possibility of an al-Qaeda attack, a new congressional report showed how easy it was to fraudulently obtain a license to buy radioactive material. All it took for undercover investigators to flimflam the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was a post-office box at Mail Boxes Etc., a telephone, a fax machine and some fast talking.

http://somd.com/news/dyson/articles/272.shtml

Web posted July 13, 2007

'Big Brother' is almost here


In his eerily farsighted book "1984," George Orwell describes a society in which privacy is unknown, slavish obedience a given, and nonconformity the ultimate enemy of the state.

In a nation crawling with domestic spies, the image of Big Brother is seemingly omnipresent. His gaze of loving authority encourages a compliant populace to maintain its herd mentality. Interestingly, while his face is everywhere, in reality, Big Brother is faceless. No one ever actually sees him. They merely assume he is in charge, that he cares for them like a familial overseer, and that his version of society is the only correct one.
It's taken us a while, but we're beginning to catch up with Orwell's vision. The Bush administration's virtually unrestricted government surveillance of Americans has expanded dramatically in the past few years. And while we still lack Winston Smith's ultra-cool spying television set in our living rooms, by this time next year we're slated to have something almost as nifty. It's called REAL ID, and when it kicks in, well, (Big) brother, we'll have all the personal security we could want. Really.

On May 11, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the REAL ID Act of 2005, as an attachment to a military spending bill. In essence, the law, which goes into effect in May of 2008 (or a year later with certain caveats), will create a federalized driver's license, with standards to be set by the Department of Homeland Security.

Well, of course it's for our own good. We'd never be able to survive as a nation without it. We haven't so far. And only kooks, right-wing conspiracy theorists and the blatantly unpatriotic would balk at:

1. Providing an incredible amount of often difficult-to-obtain documentation proving they are who they say they are.

2. Either directly paying exorbitant fees for the new identification card or paying for it through ballooning taxation.

3. Submitting to the future possibility of biometric identifiers and radio-frequency identification within the card itself.
4. Being deposited in a massive database.

5. Being forbidden to travel freely in their own country by their method of choice.

6. Surrendering a whole lot more of their privacy and individuality.
But there is rebellion in the wind.

Montana, which as a state has always had the stomach for a good scrap, flatly refuses to implement the federal plan, stating that it is "inimical to the security and well-being of the people of Montana." New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch signed into law that state's official rejection of REAL ID, indicating that the unfunded federal mandate was "repugnant" to both the state and U.S. constitutions. Other states have expressed similar legislative opposition to what is rightly perceived as an egregious intrusion into the privacy of individuals, and a dismembering of states' rights. The National Governor's Association has also expressed opposition to the federal law.

While compliance with REAL ID is "voluntary," it is also "mandatory," since noncompliance will result in your being barred from flying on a commercial airplane, entering federal buildings, opening a bank account, and engaging in a variety of other daily activities currently taken for granted. What REAL ID amounts to is the creation of a de facto national identification card and internal passport. For Alaskans, whose dependence on commercial air transport is a fact of life, refusal to "voluntarily" participate in this program means a virtual cessation of travel to the Outside.

Supporters of REAL ID claim it will help weed out illegal aliens, but our government's arrogant refusal to seal our southern borders exposes that defense as nothing more than smoke and mirrors. This program is geared toward American citizens, not illegal aliens.

Alaska is embarrassingly slow in opposing REAL ID. Though not currently requiring implementation of the law, our state legislature's milquetoast stance is a far cry from vigorous and outright rejection. For a place that supposedly prizes personal freedom and independence, this reluctance to take a stand is pitiful.

The only two options at this point are equally dramatic: boot REAL ID into the legislative oblivion it so richly deserves, or roll out the welcome mat for one fearmongering British writer. His ideas have been looking for a home for a long time.

• Kevin Reeves is a freelance writer living in Haines.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071 ... d001.shtml

EE Times: Latest News
New ID system is 'lousy' technology but it's cheap

Junko Yoshida

Page 1 of 2

EE Times
(07/18/2007 9:12 AM EDT)

MANHASSET, N.Y. — For the next generation of technology choices for U.S. border security, the Pogo constant applies: "We have met the enemy and he is us."

Three different identification card programs under development in the United States will use three different technologies with no consistency, little long-term strategy and a virtually nonexistent regime of government coordination.

While the United States' new electronic passport deploys contactless smart card technology, the Real ID card (an enhanced driver's license) will use a 2D bar code. Meanwhile, the third form of identification, the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative's PASS (People Access Security Service) Card, will employ RFID technology based on Enhanced Product Code Generation 2 (EPC Gen 2), originally developed for tagging products as part of supply chain management. The Pass Card was developed as an inexpensive alternative ID card to a passport, including U.S. citizens returning from Canada, Mexico, Panama, the Caribbean, and Bermuda.

The opportunity to go electronic with the Real ID card has already passed. The card will roll out over the next few years. But technology companies are making a last-ditch effort to convince Congress to change the implementation decision on the Pass Card. Members of the Secure ID Coalition and Smart Card Alliance including Texas Instruments, Gemalto and Infineon Technologies are in Washington Wednesday (July 1 to brief lawmakers on identification technologies. The briefing includes a real-time demonstration showing the differences between two types of automatic identification technologies for electronic ID documents: RFID and contactless smart card technologies.

Developers, many of whom provide both contactless smart card and RFID tags, are imploring the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to at least conduct a trial to evaluate the performance of both technologies before going live with the new Pass card. When compared with RFID tags, they believe that a Pass Card system "designed using contactless smart card technology will fulfill the operation requirement for high throughput while also providing stronger security, protecting individual privacy, and leveraging the ePassport infractructure," according to the Smart Card Alliance's white paper.

Even though a solicitation for Pass card is already out, and RFID technology forms a basis for the RFP, "This is still an important issue that needs to be discussed," said Tres Wiley, director of electronic documents at Texas Instruments. That's because Pass Card technology could "set a precedent" for any electronic documents of the future. "It's unfortunate that the government decided to go with a 'non-electronic card' for Real ID," he said.

n theory, as long as it meets the federal government's minimum requirement for a Real ID Card, each state could go with RFID or any other technology. According to TI, "we are not aware of any states that have said they will incorporate RFID in a Real ID card. Some border states have hinted they might, but there is not yet a definitive commitment or statement from any."

The smart card industry's argument against the use of bar codes for Real ID focuses on its technological inability to add future applications. Had a smart card technology been implemented, the Real ID could eventually serve also as, for example, a health card, library card and digital signature, said Wiley.

As for the Pass Card, the smart card industry objects to the government's choice of RFID technology because the EPC Gen 2 tags do not include extensive protection against cloning or counterfeiting.

Because the EPC Gen 2 allows cards to be read at a distance of up to 30 feet, the Department of Homeland Security regards it as efficient for processing people in vehicles quickly. However, while the RFID technology supports 32-bit passwords to protect data written on the tag, it does not use government-approved encryption algorithms. DHS plans to offer "privacy protection" by placing a unique ID number on the card and using the number to retrieve personal information (a photograph and demographic information) from a central database when the card is used at a border crossing.

This effectively means that Pass Card holders' identification number can be stolen from a distance with relative ease. A stolen ID number can be programmed on a blank chip or programmed in an RFID reader, with the reader then acting like a chip by spitting out the false ID number.

DHS has also opted for RFID technology due to the already available infrastructure in Canada. Wiley said those existing readers now need to be replaced by new readers compliant to EPC Gen 2. Besides, as ePassports adopt a contactless smart-card technology based on ISO/IEC 14443, borders checkpoints will eventually be equipped with new smart card readers. In deciding between Real ID, Pass Card and ePassport, the bottom line is cost. RFID tags cost 10 to 15 cents per tag. A smart card chip equipped ePassport costs $2.

According to Bruce Schneier, a security technologist, "Security is always a trade-off; it must be balanced with the cost." He added: "We all do this intuitively. Few of us walk around wearing bulletproof vests. It's not because they're ineffective, it's because for most of us the trade-off isn't worth it."

Schneier said the new identification card is "another lousy security trade-off." He added, "For the price, we're not getting anywhere near the security we should."

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/show ... =201001955

EE Times: Latest News
New ID system is 'lousy' technology but it's cheap

Junko Yoshida


EE Times
(07/18/2007 9:12 AM EDT)

MANHASSET, N.Y. — For the next generation of technology choices for U.S. border security, the Pogo constant applies: "We have met the enemy and he is us."

Three different identification card programs under development in the United States will use three different technologies with no consistency, little long-term strategy and a virtually nonexistent regime of government coordination.

While the United States' new electronic passport deploys contactless smart card technology, the Real ID card (an enhanced driver's license) will use a 2D bar code. Meanwhile, the third form of identification, the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative's PASS (People Access Security Service) Card, will employ RFID technology based on Enhanced Product Code Generation 2 (EPC Gen 2), originally developed for tagging products as part of supply chain management. The Pass Card was developed as an inexpensive alternative ID card to a passport, including U.S. citizens returning from Canada, Mexico, Panama, the Caribbean, and Bermuda.

The opportunity to go electronic with the Real ID card has already passed. The card will roll out over the next few years. But technology companies are making a last-ditch effort to convince Congress to change the implementation decision on the Pass Card. Members of the Secure ID Coalition and Smart Card Alliance including Texas Instruments, Gemalto and Infineon Technologies are in Washington Wednesday (July 1 to brief lawmakers on identification technologies. The briefing includes a real-time demonstration showing the differences between two types of automatic identification technologies for electronic ID documents: RFID and contactless smart card technologies.

Developers, many of whom provide both contactless smart card and RFID tags, are imploring the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to at least conduct a trial to evaluate the performance of both technologies before going live with the new Pass card. When compared with RFID tags, they believe that a Pass Card system "designed using contactless smart card technology will fulfill the operation requirement for high throughput while also providing stronger security, protecting individual privacy, and leveraging the ePassport infractructure," according to the Smart Card Alliance's white paper.

Even though a solicitation for Pass card is already out, and RFID technology forms a basis for the RFP, "This is still an important issue that needs to be discussed," said Tres Wiley, director of electronic documents at Texas Instruments. That's because Pass Card technology could "set a precedent" for any electronic documents of the future. "It's unfortunate that the government decided to go with a 'non-electronic card' for Real ID," he said.

n theory, as long as it meets the federal government's minimum requirement for a Real ID Card, each state could go with RFID or any other technology. According to TI, "we are not aware of any states that have said they will incorporate RFID in a Real ID card. Some border states have hinted they might, but there is not yet a definitive commitment or statement from any."

The smart card industry's argument against the use of bar codes for Real ID focuses on its technological inability to add future applications. Had a smart card technology been implemented, the Real ID could eventually serve also as, for example, a health card, library card and digital signature, said Wiley.

As for the Pass Card, the smart card industry objects to the government's choice of RFID technology because the EPC Gen 2 tags do not include extensive protection against cloning or counterfeiting.

Because the EPC Gen 2 allows cards to be read at a distance of up to 30 feet, the Department of Homeland Security regards it as efficient for processing people in vehicles quickly. However, while the RFID technology supports 32-bit passwords to protect data written on the tag, it does not use government-approved encryption algorithms. DHS plans to offer "privacy protection" by placing a unique ID number on the card and using the number to retrieve personal information (a photograph and demographic information) from a central database when the card is used at a border crossing.

This effectively means that Pass Card holders' identification number can be stolen from a distance with relative ease. A stolen ID number can be programmed on a blank chip or programmed in an RFID reader, with the reader then acting like a chip by spitting out the false ID number.

DHS has also opted for RFID technology due to the already available infrastructure in Canada. Wiley said those existing readers now need to be replaced by new readers compliant to EPC Gen 2. Besides, as ePassports adopt a contactless smart-card technology based on ISO/IEC 14443, borders checkpoints will eventually be equipped with new smart card readers. In deciding between Real ID, Pass Card and ePassport, the bottom line is cost. RFID tags cost 10 to 15 cents per tag. A smart card chip equipped ePassport costs $2.

According to Bruce Schneier, a security technologist, "Security is always a trade-off; it must be balanced with the cost." He added: "We all do this intuitively. Few of us walk around wearing bulletproof vests. It's not because they're ineffective, it's because for most of us the trade-off isn't worth it."

Schneier said the new identification card is "another lousy security trade-off." He added, "For the price, we're not getting anywhere near the security we should."

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/show ... =201001955

ACLU Warns Of Sucker Plot To Save Real ID Plan
Posted on Friday, 20 of July , 2007 at 6:53 pm

WASHINGTON— The American Civil Liberties Union has warned that proposals afloat in Congress to provide limited funding to states for implementation of the Real ID Act would amount to nothing more than “sucker moneyâ€

Governors Call on Senate to Fund Real ID

Jul 23, 2007, News Report

During the National Governors Association Annual Meeting this weekend, Governors released the following statement regarding Real ID:

"If Congress is truly committed to transforming Real ID into a reasonable and workable law that actually increases the security of our citizens, it must commit the federal funds necessary to implement this federal mandate.

"As the Senate considers the Homeland Security Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2008, the nation's governors urge senators to support Sen. Lamar Alexander's efforts to begin funding the mandates imposed by Real ID.

"States estimate the cost of Real ID will exceed $11 billion over five years, including $1 billion in up-front costs merely to create systems and processes necessary to implement the law and prepare to re-enroll all 245 million driver's license and identification card holders. To date Congress has appropriated only $40 million to assist states."


http://www.govtech.com/gt/127496?topic=117688

Posted on Sun, Jul. 22, 2007
Crowd lashes out at state official
BY ANNIE CALOVICH
The Wichita Eagle

A group of Hispanics shouted down state Secretary of Revenue Joan Wagnon on Saturday, some calling her a liar, as they protested a loss of driving privileges that took effect as new state law on July 1.

Wagnon came to Wichita for a public meeting called by Sunflower Community Action's Hispanos Unidos Chapter at Horace Mann school, 12th and Market. The chapter asked Wagnon to "mandate" a return to an affidavit process that had allowed immigrants who have visas and are in the process of being legalized but who do not qualify for Social Security numbers to renew their driver's licenses. Under the new law, anyone who does not have a Social Security number and cannot provide proof of citizenship is not allowed to have a license.

About 200 people turned out for the meeting. Several talked about the hardships of no longer being able to legally drive. Wagnon told the gathering that she had no power to overturn the law and that the state law was passed in response to federal law. But the crowd booed her for what they said was her support of the law, and some shouted at her to provide a solution.

Alonzo Quintero took the microphone at the meeting and said that Wagnon had met with Hispanics in February and told them that the driver's license issue was an administrative one and that she would help the Hispanic community with it. He said they thought Wagnon "was part of us." Now he thinks she lied. He said after the meeting that he thought Wagnon was in a position to help because her office is over the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Wagnon told the group that she was "personally sympathetic" to their plight "but as the secretary of revenue I do not have the power to ignore a law."

Chapter president Lore Quintero interrupted Wagnon and led chants, while voices from the crowd yelled out.

"Did you help pass this bill?" someone demanded.

"Do you want to hear what I have to say?" Wagnon answered.

"Tell us the truth!" another person yelled.

"And you shall have it," she said.

"There is only one solution, and it is a political solution" to change immigration law, Wagnon said.

Pointing out that they pay taxes -- including Wagnon's salary -- some of the Hispanics at the meeting referred to no longer having a "right" to a driver's license.

"Do you think this is a secure city when people are driving around without a license?" one person asked.

"You're a liar!" a man yelled at Wagnon.

Yells interrupted Wagnon's statements several times before she said, "I'm not going to be shouted at. I'll talk to you as long as you want, but as long as the federal law remains, there's no solution to it. Organize the way you're doing now and go to the Legislature and ask for an exemption for people who have been here" a certain number of years, she said.

"Did you support the bill?" someone yelled

"I had no choice but to support it," she answered.

"She's lying to us!" one man yelled.

She added, "I'm sorry, but I do not lie."

"She's lying," another man said, adding that his license was taken away before the law was passed.

"I am not on trial," Wagnon finally told the crowd. "I'm here because I believe you have a problem." She then thought she heard translator Emira Palacios misquoting her words, and Palacios changed what she was saying in Spanish.

Wagnon went on to say that for the first three years she was secretary of revenue the state accepted a tax identification number for driver's license applicants, but then Congress passed the Real ID Act of 2005 that prohibited it.

"We are stuck with the law we have now," she told the crowd. "Go and change the law."

Asked Palacios: "Have you seen how many of us have marched?"

After the meeting, Wagnon said she was not surprised at the anger but was irritated by the personal attacks on her.

"If I were in their position I would be really angry also," she said, but added that the people had to understand that "there's nothing to negotiate."

http://www.kansas.com/news/local/story/128501.html

I think this ties in nicely with what William was saying today.

Wagnon came to Wichita for a public meeting called by Sunflower Community Action's Hispanos Unidos Chapter at Horace Mann school, 12th and Market. The chapter asked Wagnon to "mandate" a return to an affidavit process that had allowed immigrants who have visas and are in the process of being legalized but who do not qualify for Social Security numbers to renew their driver's licenses. Under the new law, anyone who does not have a Social Security number and cannot provide proof of citizenship is not allowed to have a license.

Notice Legal Immigrants with Visas cannot have a drivers license. I bet that wont stop the illegals from driving.

COMMENTARY - Real ID: Real Nightmare

July 23, 2007

By CAROL ROSE

Can you imagine living in a country where you must carry an internal passport wherever you go? Does the phrase ‘‘Your papers, please’’ bring to mind life in authoritarian regimes like the former East Germany under the Stasi or South Africa under apartheid?

Well, this scenario is about to become a reality in Massachusetts and around the country unless we roll back the so-called ‘‘Real ID Act.’’ With a key vote on the act pending in the U.S. Senate this week, it’s time for Massachusetts residents to ask their leaders to reject Real ID as a real nightmare.

What’s wrong with Real ID ? Passed by Congress in 2005 without any debate whatsoever, the act mandates that every state’s Registry of Motor Vehicles create a vast new database containing Americans’ most personal information - from Social Security numbers and birthdates to copies of birth certificates (can your mother locate her birth certificate?). This information will be linked and accessible to RMV employees and others across the country. Tens of thousands of people will have access to our private information, turning Real ID into a one-stop shop for identity theft.

In addition, Real ID requires that states create a new driver’s license that contains a machine-readable component, making it easy for businesses and identity thieves to access our personal information. Bars often swipe licenses to collect personal data on customers, but that will be just the tip of the iceberg as every convenience store clerk learns to grab that information and sell it to data mining companies.

Real ID will become an ‘‘internal passport’’ that could be used to track and control law-abiding Americans’ movements and activities. We will be required to use the Real ID driver’s licenses to board planes and enter federal facilities. Legislation has also been proposed that would make showing a Real ID driver’s license a requirement to work, vote and obtain government benefits.

In addition, the program will cost nearly $23 billion to implement, and states are expected to pick up most of the tab on this unfunded mandate.

With all of these problems, it should come as no surprise that opposition to Real ID is growing. This year alone, 17 states passed legislation rejecting Real ID. Never before in modern American history have so many states revolted against a federally mandated program. Opposition to Real ID is coming from both the left and the right, and includes a wide range of organizations, including the Cato Institute and the National Network to End Domestic Violence.

In Massachusetts, state Sen. Richard T. Moore, D-Uxbridge, has introduced a legislative resolution opposing Real ID. At a hearing on Moore’s resolution last month, opponents of Real ID included Attorney General Martha Coakley, Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security Kevin Burke, and Registrar of Motor Vehicles Anne L. Collins. Not a single person testified in favor of the act.

U.S. Sen. John Kerry also has described Real ID as ‘‘profoundly flawed.’’ In a speech before the Senate last month, Kerry said that ‘‘Immigration reform is difficult enough without conditioning it on an unfeasible, unfunded mandate that states are not only unwilling but in some cases legally bound not to meet.’’

It’s time for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to join the opposition to Real ID. He’ll have an opportunity to do so when the U.S. Senate considers this week whether to provide partial federal funding for Real ID as a way to induce Massachusetts and other states to drop their opposition to the scheme.

The amendment, to be introduced by Sen. Lamar Alexander. R-Tenn., would provide $300 million for states to implement Real ID.

But this drop in the bucket is little more than sucker money. Massachusetts would receive a mere $6.9 million, leaving taxpayers to pay an additional $330 million to implement the program in the commonwealth. With money already tight, Real ID will leave us with even fewer funds for vital state programs. We will likely see our driver’s licenses fees skyrocket, and find slower service, longer lines and more frequent bureaucratic snafus at the DMV.

Even in the unlikely event that Congress were to fund fully the Real ID Act, it would not solve the fundamental problems with the program. As Coakley testified, Real ID represents ‘‘a total loss of common sense’’ that is ‘‘almost logistically and financially impossible to execute,’’ that will be ‘‘counterproductive in security terms; increase the chance for falsification of documents,’’ and create a ‘‘horrible inconvenience to every law-abiding Massachusetts holder of a license.’’

Make no mistake about it: Real ID is a real nightmare that no amount of money can fix. Kennedy and Kerry should oppose this misguided amendment and instead support efforts to reform or repeal this dangerous and unworkable program.

Carol Rose is executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.


http://www.patriotledger.com/articles/2 ... opin02.txt

July 5, 2007 at 11:01:12

Homeland Security has plans for your life - Republicans and Democrats come together to fight

by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster Page 1 of 1 page(s)

http://www.opednews.com


Tell A Friend

Jim Guest, state representative in Missouri has been fighting the Real ID for a year now. He started a movement that is catching fire across the country with both Democrats and Republicans. All REAL Americans care about freedom and the steady attrition of our rights.

The issues Americans must fight are increasing every day. The Real ID is one issue that, like elections, links to all issues.

In every state people are stepping up to the plate to fight the Real ID; what it does to each of us, what you, personally, will no longer be doing unless you give up your right of privacy, is frightening.

Rep. Guest will tell you about what you can do in your state Friday, July 6th at 4pm Pacific Time on the Spiritual Politician.

You need to know.

The Department of Homeland Security is practiced at doublespeak, and no where more so than when its oily tongue slides onto the subject of the Real ID.

Despite its name and the smooth arguments advanced the Real ID is Real Fascism. Starting in just three years the Federal government intends to make it impossible for you, an American, to open a bank account, travel on a plane, collect Social Security payments, or take advantage of nearly any government service.

The House of Representatives has already approved a standalone version of the Real ID That proposal was covertly inserted through a bill on military spending. This is being rushed into law even as Americans awaken to the danger they face from their own government.

Americans are fighting back. Missouri Representative Jim Guest said, “enough,â€