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Driving the immigration debate: licenses for the undocumented

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 9:27 am

Here in Washington, D.C., public transportation’s pretty good — you can get basically anywhere you need to go by Metro or bus. But the vast majority of the country doesn’t enjoy that luxury. People in places like, say, Utah and New Mexico need to drive in order to go about their daily lives — regardless of their immigration status.

Currently, only three states — Utah, New Mexico and Washington — allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driving privileges. According to immigrant advocates, it’s a question of public safety: Since so many of them will find a way to drive regardless, everyone’s better off if they’re properly licensed, have taken the requisite driving tests and are unafraid to cooperate with the police.

But now, all three of those states are considering measures that could restrict undocumented immigrants’ ability to drive or revoke it outright. And the proposals have pretty broad popular support. Elise Foley has the story.

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Comment posted November 17, 2010 @ 4:21 am

Maybe we should give Bank robbers keys to banks?
They always seem to rob them anyway!

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Comment posted November 17, 2010 @ 5:01 am

Instead of drivers licenses, we should be handing illegal aliens plane tickets home! That is the 100% most safe course of action.

These are foreign criminals who commit multiple felonies to work in the USA, who steal jobs and public benefits from Americans, who steal immigration slots from lawful immigrants.

But hey Aaron if you think an illegal alien should have a drivers license, trade passports and citizenship with an illegal alien of your choice, then move your treasonous ass permanently out of the USA to their home country.

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Comment posted November 17, 2010 @ 2:24 pm

When did we become a nation whose leaders are cowards? We need another Dwight Eisenhower who wasn’t afraid to tell illegals to leave. I can just hear Obama saying, “It depends on what illegal is.” Your definition, Mr. President, isn’t what the rest of us think. Develop a backbone and demand that they get out of our country! And has anyone thought to tell Mexico and the rest of the world that we’re not only full, we’re broke and cannot support the 20 million lawbreakers who think they’re entitled to share the wealth.

Anonymous
Comment posted November 17, 2010 @ 2:44 pm

What’s this crap about illegal aliens needing to drive “..to go about their daily lives….” when the “lives” you’re talking about are..well..ILLEGAL! If they want to drive, let them go HOME where they enjoy full rights of citizenship, buy a car, and drive to their Hearts’ Content! That’s right; they can “go about their daily lives…” in Mexico, Honduras, Brazil, Ireland, Russia..or wherever. They don’t have to be breaking our laws..there is a place for them to live LAWFULLY and that’s their own country!

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Comment posted November 17, 2010 @ 3:36 pm

Illegal immigration is best controlled by seeing to it that illegal aliens are not able to “go about their daily lives”.

That is why we must see to it that they do not get driver’s licenses and that there is strict prosecution of those who drive without one.

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Comment posted November 17, 2010 @ 6:50 pm

Is this Aaron guy for real??? Guess laws don’t mean anything anymore.

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Comment posted November 18, 2010 @ 4:06 pm

All jobs and benefits must be denied to illegal residents !

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Comment posted November 23, 2010 @ 6:23 am

I bet there will be a lot of illegal immigrants to buy foreclosed houses…

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Comment posted November 23, 2010 @ 6:27 am

Illegal immigrants will buy foreclosed houses.. Only the smart ones know that will bust up the economy… there is not chance without change..

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Comment posted December 5, 2010 @ 3:22 pm

HOW MUCH HATE !!!! .I can see her.they call us robbers ,lawbreakers,criminals. WELL THANKS GOD
There is also good peopple that extend they arms and help to families that came to work, but also like to have kids, no like those lazy us citizens that fear the big families and just have one or two, or nothing beacuse they get divorced within the next year,they donot like the comitments,so you guys are very variable even with the ladies. disrespect to you own kids,disrespect to the neighbors(in this case my shelf).there is all kind the peopple around the world ,but never enough reazon to be hating to peopple, that came here to look for better life .

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Comment posted March 11, 2011 @ 2:10 am

all you guys are just stupid just because people dsont have paper or a green card thaad dont mean sh*t how would you feel when you go to mexico or any othwer place and see how they treat u over there they shoot u in a minute STUPID RACIST this goes for all of u idiots bitches

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Comment posted March 11, 2011 @ 2:12 am

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Comment posted March 11, 2011 @ 2:21 am

none of us are even fully americans we are all illigal immigrants most of us were born here but we dont originate here so just stop hating on imigrants who come and do a better job than most of u white people who wouldnt have shit if immigraqnts didnt do njobs u lazy american dont wanna do and are on wellfare LAZY ASS BIITCHEZZ !!! IM 13 AND HAVE A BETTER OPINION THAN MOST OF U RETARDS

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