Legal “Illegal” Drivers!
By BARBARA SIMPSON
As if there isn’t enough information in the news about the problems with thousands of illegal aliens swarming into this country, another aspect of the “invasion” has to do with the issuance of driver’s licenses to them. That means that people here illegally, are being issued “legal” driver’s licenses in some states — documents they can use to identify themselves. As what? People in this country legally?
Apparently so, though for the life of me, I can’t see how any state would allow it. Then again, one of the most egregious situations exists in the state of California. Knowing the liberal politics of that state, the situation is really no surprise.
California began a trend among states with similar politics to issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. According to a report in Breitbart, securing driver’s licenses for illegal aliens is a key goal of the “open borders agenda” to “eliminate privileges meant solely for American citizens and legal immigrants.”
How about that! Who knew there was an effort to eliminate the difference between legal and illegal citizens — but then there’s a lot going on in this country to undermine the sanctity of American citizenship, and most people aren’t aware of it.
The reason given for the goal of giving them licenses is that if an illegal is pulled over by police and does not have a license — it is the first criminal charge that can put them in ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) custody for arrest and deportation. That is something the “open borders supporters” do not want!
California passed a law in 2013 to allow such licenses and that has spurred other states to follow suit. For example, Massachusetts last year approved a law to give licenses to the 85,000 eligible illegal aliens in that jurisdiction. They’re not alone.
The latest figures released show that since 2015, California has issued driver’s licenses to more than a million illegal aliens. It was in that year that the state’s legal resident requirement was removed from the books.
CalMatters published data showing that when the change in the law took effect, nearly 400,000 illegal aliens signed up to secure licenses. The next year, another 337,000 got licenses and since then, close to 500,000 obtained licenses. This does not include the thousands who renew their licenses annually.
It’s estimated that some 3.3 million illegal aliens live in the state. The Department of Motor Vehicles data show that the state has issued more than a million licenses to illegal aliens in the state and issued more than 822,000 license renewals to illegals.
No matter how you look at it, it involves a lot of people in just one state — people who are here illegally yet are being given protection by that state government to stay here — illegally!
Illegal alien drivers are involved in thousands of drunk driving arrests. The Cal Matters figures show that in fiscal year 2022, illegal aliens with more than 17,500 drunk driving convictions were arrested by ICE agents in this country and in the same period, ICE arrested more than 8,700 illegal aliens with drunk driving charges against them.
There is no definitive information as to whether any of those people were involved in accidents and whether any of them even carried insurance. If you were an American citizen involved in an incident with any of these people, the legal and financial ramifications are almost too awful to consider.
Despite that, the movement to give illegals the rights of citizenship continue and unless American citizens vote to put a stop to it, there will soon be no difference between citizens and illegals — and in that battle, we all lose.