Michelle Malkin is right. Every time you shuffle forward in the airport security line and show your picture ID to the TSA guy, you’re participating in a charade. As a matter of policy, the United States has chosen to collude in the corruption of its driver’s-license and Social Security databases. You can be on permanent “Orange Alert” or hand out valid ID to illegal aliens like supermarket coupons, but not both.

In 1999, the so-called millennium bomber, Ahmed Ressam, was arrested on the British Columbia/Washington State border en route to blow up LAX. He had faked a Quebec baptismal certificate (very easy to do back then) in order to acquire a legitimate Canadian passport. In the United States, the first stage of that process – the forgery of the initial document – is increasingly unnecessary.