Spitzer Policy Will Let Illegal Immigrants Get Driver's Licenses

newyorksun.com ^ | September 21, 2007 | JACOB GERSHMAN

[Boston Blackie]

Illegal immigrants in New York will be allowed to obtain New York State driver's licenses under a new policy that the Spitzer administration is expected to announce shortly, a source said.

"The facts show that restricting immigrants's access to driver's licenses does nothing to improve security," a spokeswoman for Mr. Spitzer, Christine Anderson, told the Associated Press in October. "All it does is drive immigrants into the shadows, creating a class of people with no public records."

Opponents of the proposed changes said restrictions on giving licenses to illegal immigrants help to prevent identity theft and thwart terrorist attacks. They note that the September 11, 2001 plane hijackers had at least 35 licenses, which helped them to rent cars and open bank accounts.

[CPT Clay]

Talk about tone-deaf.

[kabar]

And it does help them vote.

[muawiyah]

Spitzer is as nuts today as he was back when he was chasing down non-profit fund raisers.

Being Governor hasn't helped him at all.

BTW, giving illegals drivers licenses enabled a whole big bunch of them to drive cabs to support themselves while they served as the "ground support team" for the 9/11 hijackers who attacked the Pentagon and downtown DC.

I think Spitzer should be investigated for current, active connections with his little friends in AlQaida and other terrorist groups.

[pissant]

These damn idiot liberals. Even Arnold was smart enough to put the kabash on this BS.

[wastedyears]

What part about ILLEGAL don't they understand?

[traditional1]

"The facts show that restricting immigrants's access to driver's licenses"

The asshat strategically avoids using the CORRECT terminology of "illegal immigrants", and as an Officer of the Court, he effectively is lying intentionally, to hide the fact that he is proposing allowing CRIMINALS to be rewarded in the State of NY.

[Clemenza]

Clemenza predicts: Eliot will still get reelected in a landslide. NYers (especially those downstate, where the population is) are rather laissez faire when it comes to immigration.

[RC2]

The State governments tell us that to have a Drivers License is not a right, it is a privilege. A “privilege” is earned by following the laws of the country. It is not given away for the reasons they state.

[robertpaulsen]

That means I could go to New York, declare myself an illegal, give my name as Jose Jimenez (my name ...), a "temporary" address, and get a driver's license?

Gee, officer. I was speeding? Well, send that summons to appear to the address on my license (yes indeed, it's a current address -- just not mine) and I'll see you in court .. . someday.

[The Mayor]

ooooh boy

[Rangerstar]

I am sick and tire of this.
Driving is a privilege and we are giving it to the law breakers. Are they trying to make money from DL registration and renewal?

[Badeye]

The good news is Elliot Spitzer only listens to Elliot Spitzer.....

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Clemenza predicts: Eliot will still get reelected in a landslide. NYers (especially those downstate, where the population is) are rather laissez faire when it comes to immigration.

You may turn out to be right. If illegal aliens blowing up our buildings doesn't move them to stop freaks like Spitzer nothing will.

[Travis McGee]

U.S. Constitution, Article 4 Section 4:

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,

and shall protect each of them against Invasion;"

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Invasion: \In*va"sion\, n. [L. invasio: cf. F. invasion. See Invade.] [1913 Webster]

1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.

QUISLING: a synonym for traitor, someone who collaborates with the invaders of his country.

Current federal law 8USC 1373(a) PROHIBITS SANCTUARY CITIES. It reads as follows:

"Notwithstanding any other provision of federal, state, or local law, a federal, state, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual."

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Way to go newyork, a pack of IDIOTS!

[metmom]

This just makes me sick.

[CaptainK]

He is such an ass.

Amazing that even the NY Post backed him.
It makes me ill.

[CaptainK]

On the day this goes into law, with any luck, he’ll have a head-on collision with an illegal who just just left the DMV with his newly minted license.