Posted on 02/09/2016 7:44:14 AM PST by simpson96
Since California implemented Assembly Bill 60 last January, an estimated 605,000 driver's licenses were issued to undocumented immigrants in the Golden State, with 400,000 of these licenses issued during the first six months of 2015.
Immigrant rights groups and traffic safety experts have hailed the law because, they say, it means more drivers will be properly trained, licensed and more likely to have car insurance.
"We believe that this new law increases safety on California roads by putting licensed drivers behind the steering wheel," Artemio Armenta, a spokesman for the California Department of Motor Vehicles, told the Los Angeles Times.
But some have complained that under the bill, many applicants have had to wait longer to get an appointment. And even with an appointment, they have to wait in long lines.
Before the law was implemented, the California DMV hired 1,000 temporary employees, opened four additional processing centers and extended hours of operation to include Saturdays.
"It certainly overloads the system," Ann Coil, Santa Ana Tea Party Patriots coordinator, told the Orange County Register recently. "And, again, we're giving priority to people who aren't citizens."
The licenses have "federal limits apply" printed on them - meaning that federal officials and law enforcement officers in other states are not required to accept them as a valid form of identification.
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Liberals want lots of new Dem voters. When have liberals paid any mind to the law, when it comes to what they want?
That’s why liberals love ‘’motor voter’’ voter Registration
605,000 driver’s licenses and they still don’t have insurance
“605,000 driver’s licenses and they still don’t have insurance”
But this just can’t be!
“Immigrant rights groups and traffic safety experts have hailed the law because, they say, it means more drivers will be properly trained, licensed and more likely to have car insurance.”
We have the same problem here in East California (New Mexico). When the illegals go into the motor vehicle office to get their license they are also asked if they would like to register to vote. With the same fraudulent pieces and scraps of paper, all written in Spanish, that they show to create a new identity in the U.S. and receive a drivers license, they also register to vote. This may be good enough for the libtards who pass this stuff on the state level, but the Feds no longer consider a New Mexico drivers license a valid form of ID to enter military bases, federal facilities, or for getting on an airplane. These people who come to the U.S. to steal our jobs, take benefits paid for and meant for U.S. citizens, and overburden our health care system, have now become a force that can swing elections and degraded the credibility of our State issued drivers license so that very shortly any New Mexican who wants to board an airplane will have to use another form of ID such as a passport.
“...properly trained, licensed and more likely to have car insurance....â€
MORE *LIKELY*. How much more than 0%?
Likely, no more than exist today...
Say, Citizen, what happens if YOU are caught w/out a license or insurance? Tell me again how we are a nation of Laws, not Men??
Someone want to wake up Ryan and McTurtle-sack?
650,000 new commie ‘RAT, freeloading , low information voters in California.
On the bright side, that makes a good start for a deportation list.
An Executive Order from President Trump or Cruz banning these state issued licenses from using roadways and highways funded with federal taxes would render the licenses null and void. Easy to issue, easy to enforce, and provides a warning to all other states not to issue any more licenses to illegals. All that’s needed is the political will to move forward.
After getting rear ended by an uninsured illegal last year, the whole thing opened my eyes. Twit never even got a ticket, I had to pay a hefty deductible to cover the repairs and the sympathy to her from the police, well, it made my skin crawl.
In the meantime, my insurance keeps going up here in IL and it is due to the exhaustive amount of money used in situations such as mine, they have no choice but to raise the fees. Ain’t diversity great?!
“Ain’t diversity great?!”
No, not so much.
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