Posted on 08/05/2007 6:40:33 AM PDT by Cailleach
DALLAS – After about 400 foreign nationals – most of them Middle Eastern, half living illegally in the United States – took advantage of a loophole in Texas driver's license requirements from 2003 to 2005. It took the Texas Department of Public Safety more than a year to cancel the licenses, a newspaper reports.
The agency says that because of questions as to whether the department had the right to invalidate the licenses and an e-mail miscommunication, it wasn't until May of this year that the licenses were canceled. Since the abuse, DPS has changed its driver's license requirements.
"The governor hopes no state agency charged with the security of our citizens takes a cavalier approach as if 9/11 never happened," Eric Bearse, a spokesman for Gov. Rick Perry, told The Dallas Morning News for its Saturday editions. While there's no indication the applicants had any interest other than overstaying their visas, he said, some of them "come from countries with ties to terrorist activities."
Isaac Banai, an Israeli-born taxi driver who is a U.S. citizen by marriage, is accused of orchestrating the scheme in which for $500, immigrants would be picked up at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, spend two nights in a motel and then be taken to
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Chertoff got right on these illegals, I'm sure!
9/11 was obviously a figment of imagination.
Once they have a TX driver’s license, they can use that to apply for a license in another state. Somehow, I doubt that other states are checking carefully to see if this happened.
No such thing! You can immigrate to this country because of marriage or an impending marriage but you cannot become a citizen simply "by marriage". After paying a minimum of about $1000.00 and wading through the paperwork, 7 to 10 years after coming to this country legally, you can be a citizen.
I didn’t catch that. Good you pointed that out.
The really scary part is once they have a NJ driver’s licences they can renew it through the mail. My mother in law was handicapped, in a wheel chair, diabetic, and blind from retinalopathy and still had a valid NJ DL.
The really scary part is once they have a NJ driver’s licences they can renew it through the mail. My mother in law was handicapped, in a wheel chair, diabetic, and blind from retinalopathy and still had a valid NJ DL.
They can do the same in CA, CO, and NY.
Likely other places as well.
>>You can immigrate to this country because of marriage or an impending marriage but you cannot become a citizen simply “by marriage”. After paying a minimum of about $1000.00 and wading through the paperwork, 7 to 10 years after coming to this country legally, you can be a citizen.<<
If you are married to a US citizen it takes 4 or 5 years, depending on whether they send your papers to the correct address, etc. I think if you stay in the same place it’s 4 years, but if you move and file a change of address they might send your papers to the wrong address.
Yes, just as he always does...
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