80,000 Minnesotans get to rest easier tonight knowing our state recognizes their place in our collective community.
It’s a great day to be a Minnesotan.
https://t.co/cl4nvvkCkL
— Tina Smith (@TinaSmithMN) February 24, 2023
Posted on 02/27/2023 5:42:56 PM PST by SeekAndFind
My wife works at the Minnesota state legislature, and the other day she was describing the scene as the Minnesota State Senate passed a bill that would grant illegal immigrants the right to get driver’s licenses.
The concept itself has pros and cons–mainly having to do with ensuring that illegal immigrants be forced to carry insurance if and when they are on the road. I dislike the idea itself but understand how others might make a policy argument for it.
What I cannot understand is the fact that illegal immigrants have been testifying before our legislature, threatening to vote legislators out of office (uh…are they voting illegally? I am assured that doesn’t happen!), and gathering in huge protests and celebrations at the state capitol.
Where, exactly, is ICE? It seems to me that nothing would be more convenient for an immigration enforcement agency to do its job than a large gathering of illegal immigrants, and in particular, a lawbreaker testifying before the legislature that they are breaking the law.
St Paul, our capitol, is a sanctuary city, but that only means that the city will not cooperate with ICE to detain illegal aliens. It does not and constitutionally cannot include preventing federal law enforcement from doing their jobs.
80,000 Minnesotans get to rest easier tonight knowing our state recognizes their place in our collective community.
It’s a great day to be a Minnesotan.
https://t.co/cl4nvvkCkL— Tina Smith (@TinaSmithMN) February 24, 2023
I will be writing a post in the near future about how awful the particular bill is–it is an open invitation to identity theft–but what is so striking to me is how brazen lawbreakers are and how supportive our elected officials are in helping them be so.
On TV you still see law enforcement officials threatening illegal aliens with deportation if they don’t cooperate, which is a joke. In this day and age it is almost impossible for anybody to enforce the laws regarding immigration, and the Left is working hard to make all law enforcement as difficult as possible.
It is striking how far our society has gone in abandoning the most basic law enforcement for almost any crime Criminals can show up in the state capitol, describe in great detail their crimes, and get applauded and even rewarded for doing so.
It is stunning and brave, except it is really neither. It is the most normal thing in the world, apparently.
On the same day that the Minnesota State Senate passed their ridiculous bill to provide driver’s licenses to illegal aliens they confirmed their embrace of criminality by passing a bill allowing felons to vote. Both laws simply confirm that the Left-dominated Minnesota Legislature has decided that criminals–actually, only certain criminals–are one of their key consituencies.
MN Senate passes bills to restore felon voting rights, give licenses to illegal immigrants 👈🏾 Alpha News https://t.co/0SAxSGzCjP
— CyberChick (@warriors_mom) February 22, 2023
Little discussed but worthy of note: with motor-voter, illegal aliens registering to vote will become a thing. We are assured that this will not happen, of course, but why exactly would anybody believe that? The fear of breaking the law certainly will not prevent it, as demonstrated by the fact that criminals are already showing up at the capitol to demand rights they have no legal claim to.
Democrats–including my own state senator, wouldn’t even allow an exception to prevent the very worst criminals from regaining their right to vote during probation. There is no limit to their desire to empower the most destructive members of society to have full voting rights in our society.
The Senate debated a bill today to restore felons' voting rights once they leave prison. They rejected an amendment to prohibit child rapists from voting until they complete probation.
"Survivors also support restore the vote," Sen. Champion claimed. pic.twitter.com/bY26lAz9TH
— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) February 21, 2023
Are Democrats simply adding 80,000 illegal voters to the rolls to solidify their hold on power? And uncounted felons to bolster the Left’s dominance in our state? A cynic might think so.
The Minnesota Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would allow illegal immigrants the ability to obtain a U.S. driver’s license without requiring proof they are in the country lawfully.
The “Driver’s License for All” legislation states that a person applying for a driver’s license or state ID “is not required to demonstrate United States citizenship or lawful presence in the United States,” according to the most current version of the text.
Republicans in the Minnesota state Senate sought to amend the bill’s language on Tuesday to include “Not for Flying” or “Not for Voting” over concerns that an illegal immigrant might have the ability to vote in U.S. elections.
“What in your bill prevents that terrorist from coming to Minnesota, getting a driver’s license and getting on an airline and committing a terrorist act?” Minnesota state Sen. Glenn Gruenhagen said in response to the bill, according to KWLM.
The answer: nothing. But illegal aliens are simply refugee migrants anyway, so of course that wouldn’t happen. Would it?
Why would anybody fear that people who are here having broken the law would do so again? They certainly wouldn’t vote, right?
In conjunction with HF 3, every illegal alien in Minnesota will automatically be registered to vote. https://t.co/RA3pSppzQN
— Bill Glahn (@billglahn) February 22, 2023
I wish I could claim to be shocked, but by now very little is shocking to me about the Left.
That's hilarious.
They will NOT be buying insurance. Trust me.
They will, however, be registered to vote.
See how that works?
Because your "elections" in Minnesota are rigged to a fare-thee-well...
Well its their state, let them deal with it.
Exactly what they did in my far Left, brain-dead blue state in the last election.
These are the same arguments for it they present all over the country, so you know this has absolutely nothing to do with insurance or driver licenses.
Nada. Zip. Zilch.
I am willing to bet (without reading the article!) that Minnesota has automatic voter registration (motor voter).
Am I right????
“What I cannot understand is the fact that illegal immigrants have been testifying before our legislature...”
Music to the ears of the Woke left. Exactly what they want their migrants to do.
It is the libtard plan to save SS.
If this passes a Minnesota drivers license will be worthless as a legal ID. To renew my Minnesota drivers license, I had to produce a certified copy of my birth certificate, a photo ID issued by a government agency, proof of my residence and my original social security card. With this law illegals will just be handed a drivers license without any serious verification or with fraudulent documents. The State might as well put their drivers license on a roll that can be conveniently torn off and handed to the illegals.
Have to show proof of current insurance to get your license in MN. Doesn’t stop anyone from purchasing a policy and immediately cancelling it a few days later when they already have their license.
It’s already been passed and signed by walz.
Felons should get all rights restored when they’ve paid their debt. They can vote in my State, but can’t be called for jury duty - that makes no sense.
Okay, this is reality. The cops are ordered to not arrest or write tickets to the little brown people of color. They won’t purchase insurance, and they likely won’t even get a license except to get welfare. If they get a license, they won’t take a drivers education class, and they will never let loose of the legislature if they are not denied this “win”.
Because dark skinned people have conquered us. You don’t need a shooting war to be conquered.
>If this passes a Minnesota drivers license will be worthless as a legal ID<
It appears to be in violation of federal law that created “Real ID” if the state puts a star on the license.
The deadline for states to have Real ID is May 7, 2025.
EC
Minnefornia is now totally run by Democrats. Watch the destruction in the coming months. No reason to live there anymore.
I already left.
Never going back.
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