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Hats off to the New York Immigration Coalition - 02/26/05
The New York DMV is trying to prevent illegal aliens [1] from getting New York driver's licenses. If you've been reading the New York Times or the New York Daily News or press releases from various organizations, you might have been confused into thinking that they're trying to prevent all immigrants from getting licenses, but that's not true.
"'Save Our License' may face state probe" - 02/16/05
Emphasis on the "may." From the DailyNews:
The Secretary of State's Political Reform Division has ordered Save Our License, a group opposed to driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, to refile all its committee documents and submit all its campaign finance data.
Meanwhile, a group representing Latino and church groups across the nation this week filed a formal complaint with the state Fair Political Practices Commission, saying Save Our License willfully violated campaign finance laws...
NYT editorial: "On Guard, America" - 02/15/05
[also posted here]
The editorial "On Guard, America" (link) says: "Eleven states grant [driver's licenses to illegal immigrants] as a way to encourage highway safety and accident insurance coverage."
That statement is disingenuous at best.
Driver's licenses for illegal aliens flops in Redding - 02/06/05
From Lawmaker wants to ease driver's license rules:
Hollywood stars' powers of persuasion are apparently negligible in the north state when it comes to the issue of providing driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants...
[...Gil Cedillo and his Let Our Nannies Drive bill...]
But the glitz and glamour has had little effect on shoppers interviewed Frida
"[NC] DMV memo OKs licenses for illegals" - 01/26/05
From this:
North Carolina examiners should not aggressively investigate illegal immigrants who might be seeking fraudulent driver's licenses, a top state executive suggested in a memo nearly two years after the Sept.
Head of the CT DMV steps down - 01/19/05
HARTFORD (AP) - Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Gary DeFilippo, whose tenure was marked by a scandal involving fraudulent driver's licenses and a troubled vehicle emissions testing program, will step down on Feb. 1...
He wants to spend more time with his family.
Previous coverage of DMV scandals in CT and other states starts here.
"Driver's license scandals raise national security worries" - 01/15/05
The AP offers a roundup of the recent driver's licenses scandals:
Connecticut had developed a reputation from as far away as Florida as a place where people could buy fraudulent driver's licenses for as much as $3,500 without having to produce any identification.
"Feds say thousands may have lied to get Michigan licenses" - 01/12/05
DETROIT (AP) - Thousands of people may have exploited a recently closed loophole in Michigan regulations to fraudulently obtain state driver's licenses, a federal investigator says.
Federal agents are investigating what they say are criminal rings that helped people get licenses without proof of residency in Michigan.
Last month, secretary of state offices began requiring adults applying for their first driver's license or personal identification card t
"Taking license with hijacker ID rumor" - 12/28/04
Lisa Friedman from the Long Beach Press-Telegram's National Bureau (they have a National Bureau?) takes issue with the statement that the 9/11 hijackers had a combined total of 63 driver's licenses. She repeatedly refers to it as false, an urban legend, etc. etc.
It's like 187, but with quills - 12/02/04
From this:
The Save Our License Committee joined with Assemblyman Mark Wyland today in announcing a new initiative designed to prevent California State and local governments from granting benefits to illegal aliens.
[...list of provisions designed to prevent "tampering" by anti-American politicians and foreign governments deleted...]
..."We are very confident of our success with this initiative," noted [Mike Spence, with the Save Our License Committee].
Thousands of CT driver's licenses to illegal aliens? - 11/09/04
TEAM 8 INVESTIGATES
News Channel 8 Investigation results in massive DMV probe:
_ The Department of Motor Vehicles has launched a massive investigation after a Team 8 Investigation uncovered allegations Connecticut DMV employees may be illegally selling Driver's licenses...
A Team 8 Investigation, however, has found evidence the Connecticut Driver's license system is anything but secure.
Fox of Mexico to get tough with the U.S.A. - 10/18/04
More threats from our friends to the south:
In recent days Mexican President Vicente Fox and his Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Luis Ernesto Derbez, have sent barbed messages to the U.S.A. The main message - Mexico plans to get tough with the U.S.A. regarding the treatment of migrant workers in this country and the services they should receive...
"The two faces of Arnold - a Mexican's viewpoint" - 10/11/04
Mexican newspaper Reforma published an editorial back on October 3 calling our own Arnold Schwarzenegger a hypocrite for opposing driver's licenses for illegal aliens.
The editorial is basically only of use to see what the elites of Mexico think.
"Governor right to veto driver's license bill" - 10/11/04
From an editorial by Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy printed in the L.A. Times:
Arnold Schwarzenegger did the right thing when he immigrated to America from Austria as a young man - he came here legally.
"Advocates: Illegal immigrant drivers need documentation" - 09/26/04
From the Palm Springs Desert Sun's License veto questioned:
Sonia Dinorah Davila and Juana Raya are having a hard time understanding why Gov. Arnold Schwarz-enegger vetoed a bill that would have made undocumented immigrants in the state eligible for driver's licenses.
"It's not fair," said Davila, a legal assistant at Coachella Valley Immigration Service and Assistance Inc. in Palm Springs...
Say what now?
Reaction to Arnold's veto from south of the border - 09/24/04
From this:
A top foreign relations official on Thursday lambasted California Gov.
"Driver's license bill belongs in the dumper." - 09/24/04
From the Long Beach Press-Telegram's "Another proper veto":
There will be no driver's licenses for illegal immigrants anytime soon. And that is plenty soon enough...
The real debate isn't about driving, it's about an attempt to "legalize," as much as possible, the immigration status of people who are here illegally.
26 Arizona DMV workers caught in driver's license scam - 09/24/04
From this:
Federal and state agents Thursday charged 26 state workers with illegally issuing driver's licenses to human traffickers, undocumented immigrants and drug dealers, calling the actions a threat to national security.
Immediately, Gov.
Arnold might need to find a new excuse - 09/23/04
In "Maybe It's Time for Cedillo to Let Arnold Take the Wheel", the L.A. Times suggests that Gil "One Bill Gil" Cedillo stops trying to get the current version of his driver's licenses for illegal aliens bill passed. Instead, he should allow the mark Arnold wants that would distinguish the bearer as an illegal alien.
Being the L.A.
Arnold vetoes driver's licenses for illegal aliens bill - 09/22/04
As expected: "Schwarzenegger vetoes driver's licenses for illegal immigrants." The text of his nice letter vetoing the bill is here.
Also as expected, State Senator Gil "One Bill Gil" Cedillo, perennial sponsor of these bills, says he will keep on trying.
Although there's been much coverage of Cedillo here, the most telling bit is his barely-noticed rationale for giving DLs to IAs: "they were here first." I attempted to pa
"The Terminator vows to terminate licenses for immigrants" - 09/22/04
This article in Kansas City's Dos Mundos offers a standard story on Gil Cedillo's "public safety" bill to give driver's licenses for "immigrants" (actually, illegal aliens).
What's interesting is the photo from an anti-Arnold protest. It features two masked protesters wearing... Che Guevara T-Shirts. Keep those protests coming!
"California legislators ask Mexican Senate to intervene [in driver's licenses for illegal aliens]" - 09/17/04
This is a MexiData translation of a Mexican newspaper story from 9/7/04.
"Dan Walters: Schwarzenegger pleases neither side in fight over licenses" - 09/03/04
Arnold's actions in the driver's licenses for illegal aliens matter so far are not as good as they could be, but it's the end result that matters.
Dan Walters thinks he won't please either side:
NEW YORK - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger won boffo reviews for his prime-time Republican convention speech that extolled the virtues of fellow immigrants, but he returned to California on Thursday to veto a bill granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
Schwarzenegger has not been coy about his intention to veto the licensing bill, easily the most controversial of the hundreds of measures enacted...
"Bustamante urged to step in and sign [illegal alien driver's license bill]" - 09/01/04
From the SacBee:
State Sen. Gil Cedillo on Tuesday called on Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante to sign his bill to allow illegal immigrants to apply for driver's licenses if the measure reaches his desk while Gov.
"If 250,000 New York Driver's Licenses Do Not Match Social Security Data, How Many Voters are Illegally Registered?" - 08/31/04
That's what FAIR wants to know:
In light of recent revelations that New York Department of Motor Vehicles has issued as many as 250,000 driver's licenses to individuals who provided Social Security numbers that do not match information in the Social Security Administration's database, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is calling upon the state's Board of Elections to conduct a county by county review of voter rolls.
Arnold will veto the illegal alien driver's license bill - 08/31/04
So says Dan Weintraub:
The latest rumor racing around the talk radio circuit is that Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, acting governor while Schwarzenegger is in New York, will sign SB 1160, the bill giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants.
How soon could we recall the entire California government? - 08/27/04
Gil Cedillo might soon get Moter Voter cards driver's licenses into the hands of illegal aliens. The CA Assembly has just passed another bill into which SB1160 - the previous driver's license bill - had been inserted. Now it goes to the governor to be signed into law or vetoed.
"License Crackdown Stirs Sharp Debate at Hearing" - 08/20/04
Since this is a NYT report, the subtextual subtitle appears to be: "Working woman from Westchester County, immigrant workers hardest hit":
[At the meeting] Raymond P.
"N.Y. '9/11' check yanks 300k driver licenses" - 08/19/04
Hey, I don't write these headlines.
The N.Y. Post reports on New York state's attempts to take driver's licenses away from those who provided fake social security numbers. Their report is shorter than the NYT report I eviscerated yesterday. Unlike the NYT report it doesn't advocate for illegal immigration. It does, however, include the following quote.
Wouldn't it be nice if this problem would just go away? - 08/19/04
Reading the SacBee article "License bill is likely headed to veto", I keep thinking one thing. The article is about the acrimonious attempt by Gil "One Bill Gil" Cedillo to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Cedillo appears to be calling Schwarzenegger's hand.
"Immigrants Face Loss of Licenses in ID Crackdown" - 08/18/04
Oh no. Immigrants are being subjected to some form of crackdown? Let's read this NYT article:
Legislatures across the country have been wrestling publicly with a hot-button issue: whether to make it harder or easier for illegal immigrants to be licensed as drivers.
Schwartzenegger wants to know: do you oppose driver's licenses for illegal aliens? - 07/29/04
Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger is conducting a poll on "hot button issues," one of which is driver's licenses for illegal aliens.
To vote in the poll, call 1-916-445-2841 then enter 5, 2, and 2 at the prompts.
No shame, Part 2 - 06/24/04
From an opinion piece in the L.A. Daily News:
Yet again Latino immigrants are being scapegoated.
This time the attacks are taking the form of immigrant raids in greater Los Angeles... [the sweeps do] nothing to address the U.S. policies that lead to immigration...
Believe me, it doesn't get better.
Pro-illegal immigration advocates seemingly have no shame - 06/24/04
They're attempting to not-so-subtly paint Schwarzenegger as a Nazi if he doesn't support Gil Cedillo's legal-driver's-licenses-for-illegal-aliens bill:
...in Tarzana a group of five rabbis from the Valley and one from Hollywood said they support giving licenses to illegal immigrants, but object to the governor's suggestion that such licenses have a mark which identifies the person as an illegal.
"It is inappropriate at best and deeply upsetting at worst," said Rabbi Dan Moscovitz of Temple Jude
Arnold decides he likes it when people vote for him - 06/02/04
It looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting smart on the legal driver's licenses for illegal aliens issue:
Gov.
"Sponsor Drops Efforts To Give [Florida] Illegal Aliens Drivers Licenses" - 04/19/04
From the AP:
A bill that would have allowed illegal aliens in Florida to obtain driver's licenses has been abandoned by its sponsor following security concerns raised by law enforcement officials around the state.
Sen. Rudy Garcia, R-Hialeah, said Friday he would propose studying the issue before next year's legislative session begins. The bill (SB 1630) was backed by Gov.
"Good Grief, What's In The Tally Water???" - 04/15/04
From the columnist Daniel Ruth writing about Jeb Bush's plan to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens:
...Any bets that within six months, had the Florida Senate not killed Bush's flight of fantasy, Osama bin Laden might well have been driving a cab in Miami?
C'mon, this is Florida state government - a SNAFU (Situation Normal, All Floriduhed Up) waiting to happen.
In a state where at least 12 of the 19 terrorist hijackers of Sept.
Florida sheriffs oppose Jeb Bush's illegal alien driver's licenses bill - 04/09/04
Finally some good news:
Sheriffs around the state are quickly opposing a proposal backed by Gov.
Jeb Bush answers your questions on driver's licenses for illegal aliens - 04/06/04
A FReeper received a reply from Jeb Bush regarding his support for illegal alien driver's licenses:
Florida Safe Driving Act
[1] Why give driver licenses to undocumented aliens? [sic, that should be "illegal aliens" -- LW]
Florida has no power over immigration and naturalization issues, but it does have a duty to protect the safety of its citizens.