Our view: Limit illegal immigrant license plan

There are two ways to look at the recent push by Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and Senate President John Cullerton to grant driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.

The first is to say absolutely not. Illegal immigrants, after all, are here illegally. They’re not supposed to be living in the U.S. They shouldn’t be able to buy and register automobiles. Employers aren’t supposed to hire them, so they shouldn’t have jobs that they need a car to drive to each day. And so on.

Giving illegal immigrants driver’s licenses also sends the message that, yes, we will accept you in our society even if you’ve broken our laws to get here and live here in violation of those laws. We certainly can’t pretend to be discouraging illegal immigration if we take measures to accommodate those living here illegally.

Unfortunately, there are other realities in play in Illinois. For starters, Democrats now have supermajority control in the state House and Senate, and we already know Cullerton and Quinn think licensing illegal immigrant drivers is a good idea.

Related story...Undocumented drivers are more likely to flee the scene of an accident because the lack of a license can lead to an arrest. A fender bender or even a routine traffic stop can put them in line for deportation. But they drive anyway because they have to get to work, to the grocery, to school. That's especially true in Chicago's suburbs, where the immigrant population is booming and public transportation is not.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-license-20121128,0,7633344.story..

And especially the liquor store..This is very true, these parties can last well into the am.I lived by a Hispanic he has since moved,but every weekend he would have his music up as loud as it could go,wife,3 kids,in the home and he was drinking into the early morning hours. I called the cops on him at least 10 times in 10 weekends in a roll and his landlord evicted him for being a public nuisance

The Catholic Church has lost thousands of white parishioners due to the church’s liberal views and the church is looking for money from the illegals to replace the money lost.

Article posted: 11/28/2012 1:59 PM
Local clergy backing illegal immigrant driver’s licenses
By Mike Riopell

SPRINGFIELD — Two Arlington Heights Catholic leaders Wednesday were at the Illinois Capitol urging state lawmakers to allow illegal immigrants to have driver’s licenses.

Brother Michael Gosch of the Clerics of St. Viator said requiring licenses would require immigrants to go through the typical safety steps required to get one. Plus, the state would get money from vehicle fees and license holders are required to have insurance.

“They would have to know the rules of the road. That, we believe, would make them safer drivers,” Gosch said.

Sister Kristine Vorenkamp of the Living World Center said religious leaders see families at local jails that are split up when an illegal immigrant is arrested on charges of not having a driver’s license. They often don’t have money for fines or an attorney, she said, and the relatively small infraction can lead to deportation.

“We see all these families that are being destroyed because they were picked up without a license,” Vorenkamp said.

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20121128/news/711289786/print/

“Soon Obama will be offering subsidize auto insurance.”

Actually, that has been done by the insurance companies for as long as they have offered uninsured motorist coverage, which is required by all states, unless the state has no-fault insurance, which is just another scam. So Obama would just say that there is a federal requirement for all motorists to have vehicle insurance and the insurance companies would just adjust their rates higher to cover the Obama voters.

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