Posted on 06/17/2019 6:01:03 AM PDT by reaganaut1
In the 12 years since fierce backlash forced Gov. Eliot Spitzer to abandon a proposal to offer driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants, New York has fashioned much of its political identity around a commitment to immigrant issues.
That resolve has become especially apparent during President Trump’s tenure, as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and a new Democratic majority in the State Legislature have pardoned undocumented immigrants, granted them access to college scholarships and limited deportable offenses, in an effort to cast the state as Washington’s opposite.
But even as those other measures have sailed through the new Albany, one measure has remained stalled: the newly revived proposal to allow undocumented immigrants to drive.
Despite immigration advocates’ efforts to cast it as both an economic boon and a social justice imperative, the so-called Green Light bill has met persistent opposition from law enforcement and large swaths of the public. Republicans have bought Facebook ads denouncing the effort. Even the National Republican Congressional Committee blasted New York’s bill last week.
The opposition has taken hold in the State Senate, where lawmakers from moderate suburban districts, many of whom won by razor-thin margins last year, hold sway. Those senators have been wary this year of some of the progressive left’s marquee causes, worrying that they might alienate their constituents and possibly damage their re-election chances.
While the State Assembly, which is dominated by city legislators, passed the bill on Wednesday, the Senate had not scheduled the measure for a vote. (Several Democrats in the Assembly voted against it.)
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The socialists always expect democrat politicians from swing districts to commit suicide...
As an undocumented governor of New York I will veto any such laws.
I think the “drivers license” policy should be structured exactly like the policy that provided as much liquor as the American Indian could need (free booze).
I think that worked well, right?
Even better, give the immigrants unlimited subsidized liquor with their license! They’re gonna drink and drive anyway.
I literally lol’d. As the undocumented lieutenant governor, I endorse your veto.
Now we just need an undocumented Attorney General.
NYS pols will do what they do best. Controversial legislation is rammed through in the dead of night.
This is all about motor voter and they will not be denied.
“They pretend to give us driver’s licenses and we pretend to drive.”
And a gun since they’ll get what they want one way or other.
Well, that’s what ^Fast and Furious^ was for...
I thought it was shipping guns to Mexico?
Also easy to support if you live in NYC and don’t have a car.
This is not about driver’s licenses - this is prep for illegal alien voting.
>>>New York has fashioned much of its political identity around a commitment to immigrant issues<<<
Last time I checked, a LEGAL Immigrant would have no problem getting a Drivers License so there would be no issue.
Me thinks they are talking about ILLEGAL INVADERS.
Immigrants are invited, Invaders are repelled.
I don’t know why illegal aliens need driver’s licenses. The socialist “democrats” normally bus them to the polls to vote.
Constitution? What Constitution?
Have you found your candidate for 2020 yet?
As the undocumented New York State Attorney General, I will do all in my power to dust off Old Sparky and apply Social Punishment to all undocumented immigrants within the states borders.
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