It's Federal law, but it happens..

http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110010814

Huge concern has been placed upon the access of drivers licenses and the "motor voter" laws made by Clinton. No one checks citizenship when they hit the "ok".

I am still not sure why non-citizens are given a drivers license without the pre-requisite drivers education courses we all had to take in high school.

I am not saying anything like toss em out. I am saying .. by all means make it easier to become a citizen. Have your background checked and sign in like my grandparents did at Ellis Island.

I was at the gym earlier this evening and caught a snippet on CNN about swastikas being smeared on the Arizona capitol building. I couldn't locate the story just now on the CNN website.

Any further developments?

it was, in BEANS--i think they're calling it graffiti.

This is such a derail, but after your last two posts, I'm getting the impression you're under the impression becoming a citizen is just a matter of a few forms, and then voila!

Am I misreading you?

Also though, when your grandparents came through Ellis Island there were racist laws in place ensuring we didn't let certain groups of people into this country.


Dylan Dyrailer

The latter is very true. Why so many people slightly changed the spellings of their surnames. I do not disagree.

My point is, we have made things so much more complicated by "disallowing" folks that we have woven a nasty web for ourselves to be free of. It could have been as simple as filling out a name/ origin/ parental info, etc. But now, folks have to jump through so many hoops to become "legal" here.,

The ironies of our "system" glare at every turn. And ya know.. sometimes things "are" just as simple as the stroke of a pen. Clinton stroked one to make DADT a law. Bush stroked one to go do some shock and awe. Why can't Obama strike one to say that was some bullshit?

It really should be as simple as a few forms... should it not? What do folks of foreign birth have to go through to prove themselves "worthy" ?

Not arguing... just trying to see stuff for what it is, like most everyone out there. Giving government the excuse of "it's more complicated than that" will do nothing but continue to allow them to oppress everyone fighting for a little piece of the pie.

The new brown voters are legal voters.........even the ones she tossed out were legal voters.....remember the hanging chads of FL and the purging of voter rolls in FL prior to the 2000 elections....same shit different state

As Corkey said.........non-citizens are not allowed to vote in any election anywhere in the country.

You don't have to take any kind of driver's education course to get a driver's license. (You took driver's ed so your parents would pay less than both arms and legs when they put you on their car insurance). You take a written test and a driving test. You pass both you get a license if you have proof of car insurance. What does citizenship have to do with a driver's license? They are separate things.

You don't have to have a driver's license to register to vote. If that was true most of NYC could not register to vote.

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DeanRobert............ya might want to go back and read more carefully.............I posted the link to the AZ legislature website that contained the official summary of the bill and you could also read the entire bill.

I find nothing at all in the legislation that has any merit at all...........nothing........nada.........immigrat ion is a federal responsibility.........

You have to be a citizen in Texas to get a license (you *might* be able to have a greencard and some other paperwork, but I know you have to have some sort of something from social security...was just at the DMV last week and overheard a whole conversation between DPS Lady and GuyInFrontOfMe), and if you're under a certain age, you have to take a driver's ed course and pass that class to get a driver's license.

We also now list your race on your DL


Dylan Dyrailer II

Actually as a resident of VA you do have to take drivers ed or wait til you are 18 to get a license. Sorry, you not being a resident wouldn't know that. and yes, higher insurance premiums are a punishment for not doing so.
Not saying you have to have a license to vote. Saying that with the passing of motor voter folks are automatically prompted to register to vote upon receipt of a license. That is not checked for citizenship at the level of the DMV office. Besides, if someone has a valid address, it is passed. We had many many cases of it happen in Richmond. So, please do not tell me what you have read when I know what I have seen. Up close, in person.


It's kind of hard to say what someone in a state feels that you don't live in and experience everyday. Reading the legislation doesn't always reflect the feelings of all the residents of that particular state.

Honestly, though. I would probably faint from shock if so much as ONE white person gets randomly asked to show their papers.

Well - maybe in the early days of the legislation they'll ask a few white people. Make a good show of it. "SEE? We asked that there redhead to show us his birth certificate!" But that'll die down quickly.

I bet I, as a pasty red-headed Canadian with freckles, could probably go to AZ and stay there indefinitely and -never- get noticed. Sure, I've got a funny accent - but I'd just tell people I'm from Wisconsin.

and the last time I went to renew my license and my birth certificate was question cause the damned "embossed" symbol was worn thin due to keeping it in my wallet for 40 friggen years.. I did. I figure if I was born on a naval base in SC and have to show 87 pieces of proof then everyone should. I also think it is ridiculous.

better not wear your canadian shoes!!!
 

bian bilbray (R-Ca) says it's not racial profiling it's SHOES:

MATTHEWS: Like what, like what? Give me a non-ethnic aspect that would tell you to pick up somebody.

BILBRAY: They will look at the kind of dress you wear, there’s different type of attire, there’s different type of…right down to the shoes, right down to the clothes. But mostly by behavior it’s mostly behavior, just as the law enforcement people here in Washington, DC does it based on certain criminal activity there is behavior things that professionals are trained in across the board and this group shouldn’t be exempt from those observations as much as anybody else.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/22/...y-immigration/

Yeah, finally. Old dogs don't so much like the new tricks. I could never figure out why when we hand over our old license THAT didn't count as a source of ID.. WTF? YOU issued it! Ya know?? der...

and that's in my beloved california...

i have to get outta here but i was recalling prop 187 in california from years ago, i think it was similar.. gray davis? will be back later :)

I've had a driver's license for so long it's scary.

Jess........I assumed you were talking adults concerning driver's ed courses based on your entire post.

When I moved back to NM for a while, I took my CA license into DMV with a bank statement to prove my residence, took the written test and got a license.

When I moved back to CA (4 or 5 years later), I went to DMV, showed my NM license and a bank statement and utility bill....took the written test and they gave me a CA license with the same DL number I had when I had lived in CA before...........seems you are in the CA DMV computer forever....laughin....