Rete wrote in news:34$283812$2059214$1108316383
@britishexpats.com:
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>> It is neither. It is, however, typical of current US politics in that
>> there is a large issue no side will touch with a barge pole. They
>> therefore go about issuing reams of unnecessary legislation to pander
>> to their base supporters that will do absolutely nothing to solve the
>> issue but will create even more bureaucracy costing even more money
>> and inconvenience many law-abiding citizens.
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>> If they want to solve the problem of illegal immigration, tinkering
>> about at the edges with driving licence legislation is simply not
>> going to do the job. And they know it. And we should call them to
>> account on it and clearly demonstrate we have no faith in their
>> ridiculous spin on it.
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> I disagree. Immigration itself is a federal issue. Driver's licenses
> are and always have been State issues. From my armchair it would appear
> that the Feds are now willing to take a State right and make it a
> Federal one in regards to who can and cannot be issued driver's license.
> I see it that this action is needed because States are being namby pamby
> about doing the job themselves.
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> I don't see it as an inconvenience to law abiding citizens. US citizens
> and legal permanent residents will have not problems with obtaining and
> maintaining their driving licenses. It is the illegals and pending
> residents who will suffer the most. In regards to the legal pending
> residents, I do feel for them for USCIS is not efficiently issuing
> documentation attesting to their legal status for the long period
> between applying and issuance of residency.
>
> For illegals, they will do as they have always done, get their
> documentation under the table and/or driver withour licenses and auto
> insurance. That fact will not change.
>
Pending residents. That is a real train wreck. To apply for adjustment and
get a green card, you have to send in your I-94, and then the DMV will
require your I-94, which you don't have. This happened to me, In MD. I told
the clerk I would drive anyway, whether they issued a licence or not, and
so they issued a licence.
If this becomes federal law, they won't have the discretion to break their
own rules like that, and so huge numbers of people will have to drive
illegally while they wait months for immigration to send them a substitute
I-94 to show to the DMV. In most parts of this country if you don't drive
you don't go to work. |