Posted on 09/30/2012 10:33:29 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
For the past decade, California Assemblyman Gil Cedillo has been campaigning to give the state's undocumented immigrants the right to drive legally. The L.A.-area Democrat's argument has gone like this: Issuing drivers' licenses to those immigrants would enhance public safety by ensuring that they are trained and tested as drivers -- not to mention by making it more likely that they'll buy car insurance.
Tonight, Cedillo's years of work paid off -- to an extent. Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 2189, which will make hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants eligible for drivers' licenses. The new law will affect not the entire population of California's undocumented immigrants, but rather the estimated 400,000 people who are expected to meet the requirements of President Obama's new Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
The legislation, at its most basic, clarifies a bit of bureaucratic confusion. Official's at California's DMV, the Sacramento Bee's Jim Sanders explains, have already said that Deferred Action participants would be eligible for driver's licenses. But the state of California requires that applicants produce specific documents to obtain a license -- and those expected to be distributed by the program aren't on the state's list. So AB 2189 would specify that Deferred Action documents meet the DMV requirement to prove lawful presence in the United States.
Beyond those basics, though, the new legislation makes a certain statement about where California is heading in terms of its treatment of its undocumented population. (While Brown also vetoed the measure dubbed the "Anti-Arizona" immigration bill tonight -- the bill would have shielded undocumented immigrants from federal status checks -- he did so citing the fact that the bill exempted individuals who had committed crimes like child abuse, drug trafficking, and weapons sales.)
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How much you want to bet that all you need in CA to vote is a drivers license.....
No one asked these people to come here. They broke in, and are in the process of declaring themselves the citizenry.
Nothing more then foreign invasion and takeover.
According to the Bush-Rove wing of the GOP these are ‘future Republicans’, and their one regret is that they weren’t the ones to give them amnesty.
Motor Voter Bill! Remember? When you get license they ask you if you want to register to vote!
This is criminal.
I grieve for my native state. If I didn’t have a little piece of paradise back in these woods, I’d be gone so fast a freight train couldn’t keep up.
At my advanced age, a move would be out of the question. Just so long as I can keep the wolf from the door and the forestry thugs away.
I grieve for my native state. If I didn’t have a little piece of paradise back in these woods, I’d be gone so fast a freight train couldn’t keep up.
At my advanced age, a move would be out of the question. Just so long as I can keep the wolf from the door and the forestry thugs away.
Sick. Someone has to rise up and provide leadership to save this state.
He was known as One Bill Gill...
He finally won. Wish I could leave this state.
Well, look at it this way. The government, politicians, and liberals of California are interested in only one thing: How to increase the number of Democrat voters to the point where it goes beyond the pale.
They, Brown et al, are only trying to replace the outflux of sane taxpaying California deserting the state in droves, with a continuing influx of illegal aliens (yes, I said that) that will vote for them.
They, Brown et al, seem to think that they can just tax the hell out of corporations, rich people (wait till them pretty little airhead boob-blessed actresses find out), and those worker bees who are stuck in their under-valued, over mortgaged homes. Or, as a final admission of failure, will press the Federal Government to bail out their pensions, their schools, their welfare system - all the things that caused the problems in the first place.
There comes a point, however, when sane people cut their losses and leave the battlefield and regroup to fight another day. This is where a majority in the House is essential. Keep the budget clean and free from this. Force Obama to spend his discretionary Executive Branch funding - this will hurt him.
400k new Democrat voters. Betcha their licenses, which serve as identification for voter registration, won’t be annotated with their non-citizen status.
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