New York Immigration Coalition supports Spitzer driver's licenses for illegal aliens plan

It's no suprise that the New York Immigration Coalition - a group that doesn't seem to understand the word "illegal" - would come out in support (link) of Eliot Spitzer's plan to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

UPDATE: If you're in NY state, there's a petition - including a printable version - here.

And, from "Spitzer's licensing plan has some Dems worried" (link):
But Richard Schaffer, Suffolk Democratic chairman, worried that Republicans will use the licensing issue to tar Democrats in all local races. "I wish the governor would have consulted with some of the suburban counties that he is impacting with this licensing proposal," he said.

But Jay Jacobs, Nassau Democratic chairman, downplayed the issue's impact on local races, saying it is a state issue, not a local one. "It may be an issue in 2008, but not this year," he said.

...In Suffolk, Legis. Jack Eddington (D-Medford) and Democratic legislative candidate Brian Beedenbender have already come out against Spitzer's plan and are circulating petitions against it.

The Suffolk Legislature's presiding officer, William Lindsay (D-Holbrook), called Spitzer's plan "troubling," saying, "I don't think he thought it out all the way."

Comments

"The new DMV policy presents a rare bipartisan opportunity to unite all New Yorkers around a serious effort to improve public safety and homeland security and bring immigrants out of the shadows and into the system." How in the world will issuing licenses to invaders - who have demonstrated an above average propensity for collisions and traffic violations - _improve_ public safety? How will undermining the value of a keystone document for ID improve public safety? Let's get the invaders out of the shadows by deporting them. THAT will certainly improve public safety.

"But Richard Schaffer, Suffolk Democratic chairman, worried that Republicans will use the licensing issue to tar Democrats in all local races." With all the certainty of the grave.

The clerks who are supposed to issue these licenses have together refused to do so!!! There are still American Heroes left in this country! Time to rally all the support and have a MASSIVE MARCH on Washington...tar and feather Jorge Bush and turn him out of the White House and send him on down to mexico where he belongs! It's a shame that we have far too many PHONY SENATORS in Washington!!!(Starting with Harry the WEASEL Reid!)

Spitzer's rational for the licenses is that he is just being realistic. The illegals are already here and driving anyway. Well he is well aware that a drivers license and a fake SS number are all that is needed to look and act like a legal citizen. Typical politician, he cannot put America first. Alway looking at the next election.

He realizes that the main effect will be to help the illegals stay. And he realizes that giving them licenses will actually make Americans less safe. The Feds and everybody else who has sworn to protect this country know this too, yet they do nothing. Now think about what that means.

What it means is they do NOT give a flying whit about Americans. As many are killed and assaulted and raped by Illegals...never mind having their jobs stolen,their culture assaulted and their beighborhoods slummified.....these BUMS in Washington really do NOT care. You could fly ten more planes into buildings and they would not blink. How these creeps can claim to represent the American people is astounding..Esp. those democratic candidates pandering and falling all over each other to please foreign invaders. If it wasn't such a disaster it would be amusing.

American's had better wake up and fast ! What part of ILLEGAL is a problem for the majority of our elected official's so hard to understand ? People like Eliot Spitzer should not only be thrown out of office but also prosecuted for aiding ILLEGAL's in America.It's true, everything that happened on 9/11 is forgiven and we just keep taking it and taking it. AMERICAN'S ! Wake up ! Before long our children and grand-children are going to be 2nd class citizen's and not to mention all of the crime and cost that the ILLEGAL'S bring. ! wake up ! Think about your children and grand-children--before long they will be 2nd class citizen's.