Travel Documents and other infringments of freedom.
Ok in another move to make us look more like the USSR of the 70's the US Federal Government has decreed that the States need to have all of their drivers come into DMV's IN-PERSON to get a new ID. You would have to bring in proof of citizenship, or legal residency in order to get a drivers license. This was passed because all of the hijackers of the 9/11 planes had valid drivers licenses, but were in the country illegally. This in essence is creating a National ID, which last I understood the government already had in the form of Social Security Numbers. But I guess if you are trying to track all of your citizens movements you can't have too many ID to follow.
Now on the surface this sounds like a good idea, I mean why should an illegal immigrant get a drivers license. Hmm, good idea, but there are lots of ramifications. The first of which is further intrusion of the Federal Government into our daily lives, where if I recall we have a constitution and bill of rights are supposed to be in place to keep them out of our private daily lives, and they are supposed to stay out of the states lives and let them do what they feel is best for their citizens. But all of that aside, this only serves to drive illegal immigrants who are here working, and producing income etc. underground. Currently in order to get a Drivers License most if not all states require you to have insurance. With this move, all of the illegal immigrants out there will no longer have to have insurance, or a valid drivers license. Just like laws and police to keep immigrants out of the country in the first place don't stop them from coming in, this won't stop them from driving, all it really does in put further burden on those who are citizens. It doesn't stop anyone from driving. I mean we have government officials driving without licenses or suspended licenses driving what is to stop an illegal immigrant from driving.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/16/AR2007121601754.html?nav=rss_metro
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Now on the surface this sounds like a good idea, I mean why should an illegal immigrant get a drivers license. Hmm, good idea, but there are lots of ramifications. The first of which is further intrusion of the Federal Government into our daily lives, where if I recall we have a constitution and bill of rights are supposed to be in place to keep them out of our private daily lives, and they are supposed to stay out of the states lives and let them do what they feel is best for their citizens. But all of that aside, this only serves to drive illegal immigrants who are here working, and producing income etc. underground. Currently in order to get a Drivers License most if not all states require you to have insurance. With this move, all of the illegal immigrants out there will no longer have to have insurance, or a valid drivers license. Just like laws and police to keep immigrants out of the country in the first place don't stop them from coming in, this won't stop them from driving, all it really does in put further burden on those who are citizens. It doesn't stop anyone from driving. I mean we have government officials driving without licenses or suspended licenses driving what is to stop an illegal immigrant from driving.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/16/AR2007121601754.html?nav=rss_metro
Washington Post Article
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