[Calif.] Calls needed to stop driver's licenses for illegal aliens

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[lonewacko_dot_com]

CALLING ALL CALIFORNIA IMMIGRATION REFORMERS!

Fight Illegal Alien Driver's License Bill

Urge Committee Members to Reject SB 60 at Monday Hearing

On Monday, June 27, the Assembly Transportation Committee will consider legislation introduced by Senator Gil Cedillo that would give California driver's licenses to illegal aliens. The Latino community and other special interests have a huge grassroots campaign underway and are pressing hard for the passage of this legislation. SB 60 has already cleared the State Senate and must be stopped now before it's too late. We need your calls and emails to committee members to show that California residents oppose giving driver's licenses to people who have broken our immigration laws!

CALLS/EMAILS NEEDED NOW THROUGH MONDAY!

Please call and/or email the Assembly Transportation Committee members now through 1:00PM Monday and urge them to vote NO on SB 60. Feel free to use the talking points below to support your opposition.

This link will provide you with phone numbers and email addresses for the committee members. If your Assembly member is on the committee, please contact his or her office first with your strong opposition to SB 60.

HEARING DETAILS:

The Assembly Transportation Committee will meet Monday at 1:30 PM in Room 4202 of the state capitol. Your calls and emails prior to the hearing can have an effect on this vote.

To see the text and status of SB 60, please follow this link to the California Assembly web site and enter SB 60 into the search engine.

TALKING POINTS:

• With illegal immigrants costing California an estimated $10.5 billion a year for education, health care and incarceration, it's inconceivable that the legislature is considering giving illegal aliens driving privileges, which will make California and even greater magnet for further illegal immigration.

• SB 60 would risk terrorists accessing documents that would make it easier for them to implement their plans to attack our nation. The 9/11 terrorists used state-issued driver's licenses to do more than board the airplanes they turned into weapons of mass destruction. They were integral to every step of the planning process, from opening bank accounts, to renting safe houses, to renting cars, and generally avoiding detection.

• Federal regulations for implementing the REAL ID Act have not been finalized, so it is unclear whether the current version of SB 60 will conform with federal policy. Not only is passage of SB 60 wrong and potentially dangerous, it may penalize millions of citizens and legal residents of California by invalidating their driver's licenses as an acceptable form of federal ID.

• SB 60 would give illegal aliens an identification document that would facilitate their continued illegal residence and inhibit the efforts of the federal government to uphold the immigration laws of the country.

[Das Outsider]

Get a chant going: Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Gil Cedillo has to go! Everybody now.

[janetgreen]

E-mail list: TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON SB60!

Assemblymember.Oropeza@assembly.ca.gov, assemblymember.huff@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Bogh@assembly.ca.gov,
Assemblymember.Chan@assembly.ca.gov,
Assemblymember.Shirley.Horton@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Karnette@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Liu@assembly.ca.gov,
Assemblymember.Mountjoy@assembly.ca.gov, assemblymember.niello@assembly.ca.gov,
Assemblymember.Pavley@assembly.ca.gov,
Assemblymember.ridley-thomas@assembly.ca.gov,
Assemblymember.Salinas@assembly.ca.gov, Alberto Torrico Dem-20 (916) 319-2020 (no e-mail)

[Bush gal in LA]

Ok , but didn't Arnold already take care of this when he first got into office. If they tried to push this through does he not have the power to strike it down again like he did when Grey Davis tried to ram this down our throats?

[lonewacko_dot_com]

If it goes to Arnold again he would (probably) veto it again.

However, that would be after Cedillo and friends let loose another round of widely-covered anti-Arnold smears.

Much better that it should never reach Arnold in the first place.

[itsahoot]

If they tried to push this through does he not have the power to strike it down again like he did when Grey Davis tried to ram this down our throats?

He was working to get a bill through right after the election, don't count on him to stop this.

[janetgreen]

don't count on him to stop this.

If he values his job and wants to get re-elected, he might consider a BIG VETO on this bill. He should remember Gray Davis.

[Pelham]

Just give them amnesty (call it something else) and make them all legal. No problem.

[Carry_Okie]

Ok , but didn't Arnold already take care of this when he first got into office. If they tried to push this through does he not have the power to strike it down again like he did when Grey Davis tried to ram this down our throats?

Schwarzenegger on Driver Licenses for illegal aliens during a January Interview with Univision:

We are right now in the middle of working very hard with Senator Cedillo. My staff and his staff. Everyone is working together. And we are absolutely positive that we will come up with a great bill. With his help and with my team's help, I think we will work it out. So there's, uh, really a good move forward.

Interviewer: How would you deal with more conservative members of the legislature...?

Schwarzenegger: Again, it's one of those things where we all have to get together and see that this is a good idea and this is the way to move forward. So, I am talking to my Republican friends all the time about it, and also to my Democratic friends. We will do it.

Washington Times, 3/02/04

"Our staffs have met, and they're working on this together,"

said Vincent Salido, spokesman for the Republican governor

[CBart95]

Just a damn minute. The State has no legal right to alter or effect immigration. These are Federal matters.
Where do these state legislators get the notion that they have any rights here in any way? And all this heat and commotion about phone calls and other energy wasters. Who's idea is all this? Did any of these political action "Heros" finish high school?
This is just not the way things get done...even in a screwball state like California.

[Bush gal in LA]

I just can't believe Arnold would let this go through.He knows it'll be dangerous to California and that it would give terrorists the message to come on over the border and get a drivers liscense.

[Californiajones]

Nother Bush (not Rove) gal in LA and I am very concerned by this proposed legislation. Sneaking it in on the backwash of the Supreme's infamous no private property ruling is also insidious.

[lonewacko_dot_com]

ping

[janetgreen]

Sneaking it in on the backwash of the Supreme's infamous no private property ruling is also insidious.

BTTT

[Czar]

Arnold has already lost a lot of his support, especially among conservatives who preferred Tom McClintock. If he is caught supporting this abortion of an idea, he can pretty much kiss off any further political ambitions.

The bloom has been off the rose for quite some time. Arnold is a very big disappointment. Long on talk, short on action.