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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has granted REAL ID extensions to all 56 U.S. jurisdictions, ensuring that driver’s licenses and ID cards across the country will achieve a higher security standard, and that all will continue to be acceptable for official purposes after the May 11, 2008 deadline mandated by Congress in the REAL ID Act of 2005.

Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has granted extensions to 49 of 50 states, the District of Columbia and all five U.S. territories, putting more than 99 percent of U.S. driver’s licenses and ID cards on the path to secure identification. Congress mandated in the REAL ID Act of 2005 that state-issued identification must be REAL ID compliant to be acceptable for official purposes.

San Diego, California - At the Foro César Chávez (César Chávez Forum), sponsored by the Love Library and the Aztec Shops at San Diego State University, more than 50 students, faculty, and community members heard Dr. Rogelio Reyes, Professor of Linguistics at SDSU-Imperial Valley Campus, recount his personal experiences as an activist in the Chicano struggle for liberation of the 1960s and, more generally, the impact of the farm workers movement on the social status of Spanish in the Southwest.