Illegal Aliens Getting Driver’s Licenses?
Minnesota House Majority Leader Ryan Winkler holding “Right to Drive” sign. (Associated Press)
If Minnesota Democrats get their way, illegal aliens living in Minnesota would be able to get driver’s licenses. The Democrat controlled Minnesota House passed a bill that would make this a reality. It’s on its way to Minnesota’s Senate, where the Democrats are in the minority.
According to Fox News:
GOP state Sen. Bill Ingebrigtsen said the bill would “undermine our current values.”
“Minnesota shouldn’t be in the business of incentivizing illegal behavior, and by allowing illegal and undocumented immigrants access to driver’s licenses, that’s exactly what our state would be doing,” he said.
One of the arguments that this bill’s supporters advance is that it would make the roads “safer”. Illegal aliens are in the country illegally, haven broken our laws because they saw a benefit in breaking our immigration laws.
What’s stopping these folk from breaking traffic laws while driving if they saw a benefit to breaking a traffic law? It’s not going to change their driving habits. Chances are that illegals that break traffic laws now won’t let a driver’s license stop them from breaking a traffic law later.
This energy should’ve been spent in reviewing if laws were needed that would facilitate assisting the federal government enforce immigration laws.
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The powers that be have passed drivers licenses for illegals in multiple states. The rationale was always that it would reduce their accident rates and they would buy auto insurance. It turned out to be a totally false rationale and expectation. Illegals are still driving drunk and without insurance, with and without licenses. If one is willing to flout our laws by crossing our borders illegally, then why respect our driving laws. Many are also engaged in identity theft and fraud as a means of gaining employment, the primary reason they come here in the first place.
rgr769 I damned well ROGER THAT brother! In my state, if you are in an accident with a non-citizen, legal or not, there is a far better than even chance that if they don’t flee the scene they will have no insurance. They buy a 90 day or 6-month policy at the dealer in order to drive off the lot. After that they let it lapse and drive happy. While I pay more for uninsured motorist coverage. They get an additional ticket for not having insurance which they promptly ignore.
I wish I had a dollar for every traffic collision report/police report where the driver of the uninsured vehicle ran from the scene of the accident. When caught, they invariably had Hispanic names different than the last registered owner of the vehicle they were driving.
Are you suggesting that criminality is a chronic condition whose symptoms include reoccurring moral failings?
That’s barbaric.
/huge s
Been the law here in Washington State for years. Illegal aliens come here from other states, (one time we picked some up from Georgia!) to get licenses.
Agreed- then they want US to pay out for the enhanced licenses because they have given out so many drivers licenses to illegals. Kind of like their newest dream of having to provide proof of insurance before you can get tabs. I will be so glad when wanna-be and sideshow are gone!!
Been this way in the PDRof MD for quite a while.
Maryland MVA
Now ask ’em who their insurance underwriter is.
“Que? No se.”
Florida proposed the same type of Bill last month. Check out their rationale:
“Immigrants in Florida Illegally Could Get Driver’s Licenses Under Proposed Bill”
http://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-news/immigrants-in-florida-illegally-could-get-driver-s-licenses-under-proposed-bill
“Legislation at the state capitol would allow undocumented immigrants living in Florida to have a legal state driver’s license.”
“Under a bill filed in the House and Senate, people in the state illegally would be allowed to use documentation such as foreign passports or international birth certificates in order to obtain a Florida license.”
“Currently, those living in the state illegally often drive to and from jobs with no license and no car insurance. House bill co-sponsor Anna Eskamani says the legislation will encourage undocumented drivers to report accidents, while also making the roads safer for all drivers since tests will be required in order to drive.”
“She said the licenses could drive down car insurance rates since there will be fewer uninsured drivers.”
“I always ask the question about why not build trust with those who are already marginalized, versus pushing them farther and farther away from us. I think what this bill does is it helps to build that trust. It also helps ensure public safety,” State Rep. Anna Eskamani (D-Orlando) said.”
“State Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez (D-Miami) added, “It doesn’t matter your immigration status. If you are on the roads, you should have access to a driver’s test and the ability to get car insurance.”
“House bill co-sponsor State Rep. Anna Eskamani (D-Orlando) says the legislation will ENCOURAGE undocumented drivers to report accidents, while also making the roads safer for all drivers since tests will be required in order to drive.”
Encourage??
Seems to me it’s the law for us citizens to report an accident, whereas “undocumented” (read ILLEGAL) people would just being ENCOURAGED to report accidents.
Dumb-asses!
Florida is a “no-fault” state as far as auto insurance goes, is it not?
As of December 2018, there are
12 States (and DC) That Allow Driver’s Licenses for People in the Country Illegally
You can find the breakdown at this site:
https://immigration.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=005535
It is better for everyone on the road that they get driver’s licenses. Unlicesensed drivers are a huge liability and hazard.
Additionally, like most countries; you don’t need to be a US citizen to get a drivers license. I have had licenses in other countries and would likely have driven unlicensed if getting one was not possible.
We all already knew that you are a “huge liability and hazard” Lars, but it’s good to see you admit it.
Lars wants to make it more attractive for third worlders to illegally come here to replace the likes of us and vote D-rats aka crypto-commies into total power forever. Semi-literate poor from the third world are easy recruits for the Free Shit Army (FSA).
“Free Shit Army”, huh?
I hope they have brightly colored uniforms so I can pick them out of a crowd with my first focal plane 19 power, um, ‘camera’. Yeah.
Exactly how the hell does the plastic card in your pocket (probably with a fake name) stop you from being a liability and/or a hazard?
Does it make you drive better or not drink and drive?
Is there a liberal cause that you won’t defend? I’m a conservative but don’t reenwith every damn thing that the GOP comes up with.
I’m shaking my head right now and just rolled my eyes so hard I’m dizzy
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what part of driving is not a right but a privilege? Not everything is a right got that Commie?!!
F U!
It is better for everyone that they stay in their own country and make it great again
Like having a card with their picture on it will make them a better citizen and start buying insurance.
Who ties your shoes?
The solution to illegal immigration is not to intentionally make the road unnecessarily unsafe for American citizens.
Stop being a half wit just becUse you have been propagandized to be upset about immigration reform ought now.
Illegal immigration is at historical lows and a fraction of what it was in the 80s.
There is no immigration crisis and issues like licensing foreign drivers, even undocumented, should be handled through rational policies not fear monger in general and politically triggered rage.
Besides, why is your panties suddenly in a wad now? Or have they been for three decades?
And these licenses are not real ID complaint. So as real ID becomes the standard the non citizen drivers license will be distinguishable from US citizen IDs
“Illegal immigration is at historical lows and a fraction of what it was in the 80s.” Pull your head out of your ass mouthbreather, even Jeh Johnson, who worked for your messiah as i recall, says that current numbers are unprecedented.. Maybe just for a second, pay attention to the real world instead of knob gobbling your professors huh?
Here in Colorado, where illegals can get a license, it’s still not unusual at all (read multiple times a week) for my little single station department to run a roll-over wreck on one of the interstates that go through our district, and when we arrive on scene, NOONE is there… do you think that space aliens just dropped the vehicles there??? or is the Tecate and tequila bottles, along with spanish music CD’s, etc maybe a clue as to who was driving???
As for who has been propagandized, that’d be you genius!
Man,.., I REALLY dislike you. It’s almost pathological bubbling in the adrenal glands, just the thought of you, it makes me want to fold my ifone in half…run into traffic…burn the house down around me…jump into a trash compactor.
I’m gonna go drink to ten (beers)
No immigration crisis? For an educated man, you’re about the most ignorant, arrogant, narrow-minded cocksucker I’ve ever heard of.
He is not educated; he was indoctrinated at the PR of Berzerkely.
He can’t see it with his head up his ass, on top of his ivory tower.
Everyone likes their own brand, right Lars?
Larsie Boi…Again…GO…TO…HELL….Go…Straight…To…Hell…Do not pass go, do not collect some more free money.
And on the way to hell? GFY!
I think he misunderstood the purpose of his SAEDA card.
Everything he knows from his profs was shoved up his ass… and that’s where he pulls the information out of.
Well, well, I was wondering when our resident with his highly revered degrees (DWD & BWBS) would show up. He always uses his DWD and does his research and only takes bits and pieces of the many things he reads and construes them to meet his opinion and beliefs. The research fellows on 3l do the checking on the data and sends the results to 4u for comments. Of course this spurs the resident to utilize his BWBS to counter the comments and the end result is the boys in 4u are sent into spasms of laughter for the rest of the day.
Your claim is that illegal immigrants without a driver’s license “intentionally make the road unnecessarily unsafe for American citizens.” You then must explain how allowing them to get a driver’s license will intentionally make the road necessarily safe for American citizens.
Your inquiry presupposes that there is logic and reason in his argument.
I regret to inform you that you have just walked into the patented “Lars’ Logic Ambush Blackhole Zone”, where the slogan is: Just when you thought it was safe to have an idea, um,… who’s hungry for tacos?
So – because we travel to Europe and need a passport, now you think we should also be forced to pay for the enhanced license as well? BULLSHIT! Until there were so many states (like mine, sadly) that were just handing out licenses to everyone that wanted one, a drivers license WAS proof of identity and recognized as such. Now it’s just another piece of plastic to carry unless you want to shell out the double fee for an “enhanced” one, and heaven help you if you have any endorsements because they are jacking them up as well.
“Illegal immigration is at historical lows”
DHS and Border Patrol disagree with you. I’ll believe them before I believe some virtue signaling commie from Berkley who has a habit of just making shit up to fit his narrative.
Really? Never been upset about illegal immigration until now?
That’s why my Father moved us out of south Florida in 1979.
Dumbass.
This story just “Drove” me crazy. Florida is a no fault state, so to make it fair, uninsured drivers whether illegals or not illegals hit my car and it is not my fault, my insurance company pays for the damage.
What part of illegal is too f*cking difficult…
FFS, this is why our elections are fraudulent and you need a federal id to fly, enter a fed building, open an account, etc
These United States have been subverted by the well-intentioned, useful idiots, directed by their handlers.
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I don’t know why my comment above showed up as a reply to your comment. Stupid IPhone!
You make a great point. A terrorist POS sneaks into this country as an illegal, is able to get a DL, which until Lar’s comment above, I never knew was not a credible ID ( I mean, I have had my US Army ID turned down and asked for my DL), and that illegal is now able to circumvent the no fly list.
I guess the next planes that fly into something here are will be the republicans fault too?
I just can’t wrap my head around how F’n stupid the left is. How do they run their personal lives?
@&$%#|
NOT a credible ID
No worries. I don’t understand why some of our fellow citizens (see above) want to make it difficult for law enforcement to remove illegal aliens who commit crimes AND have we, the law abiding taxpayers, pay for it, over and over and over.
Wait. No. I got it, it’s retributive justice. See, these non-hacking POSs are still upset about that wedgie a self-assertive A-type gave them for being a loudmouth POS.
They’re miserable, we’re miserable. (I have an ex-wife that used that tactic…)
Sanctuary state Washington has been passing out drivers licenses to Illegals since 1993. One of the documents they can use to apply is the state form showing eligibility for Department of Social and Health Services Benefits.
As a side note, recently there was Kittitas County Sheriff Deputy shot to death and a city police officer seriously injured investigating a case of road rage by a previously deported Illegal alien.
Our sanctuary-loving Governor Jay Inslee graciously offered to divert from his lost-cause presidental compaign (1% name recognition) to grace the funeral of the Deputy with his presence. To their credit the family publicly told him to get lost.
I had read about that family telling Inslee to FOAD. Good for them, the policies that Inslee and the dems embrace contributed to the death of that deputy.
Why is it I got a feeling that illegal immigration is going to end up becoming an Achilles’ heel (a potentially explosive one at that) for the Democrats and the political Left in general?
Let illegals drive. One insured gets in an accident with me, I get two rounds to put into the major joints of my choice. Sounds fair to me.
Uninsured
It’s not like suing is an option, half of nothing is nothing or if the illegal alien has assets he can just liquidate them and flee back to their sh*thole country of origin.
I wonder how many paper wads are smuggled over the southern border in prison wallets.
That reminds me, Siri, set a reminder to burn all of my money and I need rubber gloves.
What needs to be said here is the Democrats end game. “Motor Voter”. All it takes to register to vote in most states is a valid driver’s license…easy peasy.
Just add on their plan to allow 16-17 year olds to vote… it’s gonna be greeeeeeeeat (sarcasm.)
They’re an irresponsible party and rapidly becoming the “Free Candy” van for our nation’s unattended and immature youth.
Drivers license are about to become worthless as identification thanks to liberal shitheads giving them to illegals. The real ID is what will be required soon and you can’t get it without paperwork confirming citizenship. I guess it’s only a matter of time u too liberals destroy that form of identification and a new form has to be created.