The ongoing debate of licenses for illegal immigrants:
Gov. Spitzer Surrenders on License Fight
"Lost in the posturing is the fact that eight other states - Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington - currently do not require drivers to prove legal status in order to obtain a license." AP, Nov. 14, 2007.
Obama Stands By Support For Spitzer Plan
"Sen. Barack Obama, D-Il, is standing by his support for granting driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants, even after Gov. Eliot Spitzer, D-NY, abandoned the proposal amidst rising political opposition." Sam Stein, Huffington Post, Nov. 14, 2007.
GOP split on Repeal of Real ID"Congressional Republicans are scrambling to defuse the political time bomb they created in 2005 when they allowed states to issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens — but a key Republican and author of the Real ID Act says their new bill is unconstitutional." Washington Times,
Nov. 14, 2007.
Oregon License Rules Tighten
"Gov. Ted Kulongoski plans to issue an executive order today that he says would "dramatically tighten" restrictions on Oregon driver's licenses and make it far more difficult for illegal immigrants to get one." Oregonian, Nov. 16, 2007.
What do you think about Drivers Licenses for Illegal Immigrants?
"Unglued????" All I'm going to say for now is .... I'm not anti-immigrant .... I'm anti-illegal. So for me it's a NO for the drivers licenses. And I don't care if they can't buy insurance, learn the rules of the road, or are having transportation troubles. I don't care if it would bring them into the mainstream and "lift them up."
THEY ARE ILLEGAL!
I do care about the other power that drivers licenses may give to illegal immigrants.
The first possibly being ILLEGAL VOTING.
Oh, wait .... do our voting ballots come in Spanish?
