Illegals Can Get Drivers Licenses In Many States
By Bob Small
While working on my previous article on Haitian immigrants, we discovered this notice from Catholic Charities concerning a march in March 2019 to get drivers licenses for illegals. It was sponsored by Catholic Charities, Diocese of Trenton had the target was the New Jersey State House. The result was NJ A4743 becoming law which allowed driver’s licenses to be issued without requiring “proof of lawful presence”.
This led me to look at other states and we found Brief States Offering Driver’s Licenses to Immigrants and Obtaining a Driver’s License as an Undocumented Immigrant
We quoted both articles, a year apart, because both cited 19 states and DC, in other words, no change.
Pennsylvania has a bill to get licences for illegals. It’s House Bill 769.
The prime sponsor of this is Danillo Burgos (D-Phila-197). For the last two weeks, we have sent questions on his website and spoke to his staff as to whether the Feds would have access to this information. He finally sent us his constituent newsletter. If you sponsor legislation, shouldn’t you be willing to answer questions about it?
Let me end this with some questions;
Should illegal immigrants have access to drivers licenses, especially considering they are already driving as part of their daily lives and work?
Can they be mandated to have insurance for any accidents they may be involved in?
Will a driver’s license entitle them to vote or are there controls put in?
Lastly, when does a government, Democrat or Republican, have the political will to reduce this enormous backlog by putting those immigrants who should be here on the path to citizenship while returning the criminals to their country,
To be fair, neither the UK nor the European Union or any other country or group of countries has managed to resolve this. Could probably write the same column in 2034.
Illegals Can Get Drivers Licenses In Many States
