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ALBANY, N.Y. -- A new opinion poll indicates that a majority of New Yorkers oppose a plan proposed by Gov. Eliot Spitzer to allow illegal aliens to obtain a driver's license. According to a poll from the Siena Research Institute, only 22 percent of voters supported the plan, while 72 percent are opposed. Sixty-four percent of those surveyed agreed with the statement that the change in policy would allow illegal aliens to obtain a New York driver's license and pose a national security risk. Only 25 percent agreed with Spitzer's contention that the change will significantly reduce the number of...

(CBS) NEW YORK They were celebrating outside the governor's office Friday as Eliot Spitzer handed a landmark victory to a half-million illegal immigrants. The state will no longer require proof of citizenship for driver's licenses. "We're changing our policy with respect to getting more people out of shadows and into the system so people don't hide they're here," Spitzer said. He said the current restrictions on non-citizens have filled the roads with unlicensed drivers five times more likely to get into accidents. But the also called it a matter of justice. "As long as I'm governor we won't pretend they...

A Maryland legislative committee is aiming to kill a proposal that would make it difficult for illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses, saying its regulations for toughening documentation standards are discriminatory. The state Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) in July filed a plan that would not allow license applicants to use documents such as foreign school and baptismal records to prove their identity.

Since March, the average weekly number of driver's license applications by immigrants and illegal aliens has nearly doubled in Maryland, where legal residency is not required of applicants, according to the state Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA). The number of out-of-country license applications, or those for noncitizens, has surged from an average of 946 a week to 1,800 a week since March, MVA spokesman Buel Young said.

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We'll never know, because the records aren't good enough to tell us. But a joint federal-state investigation of last November's election in Milwaukee has found incontrovertible evidence of voter fraud. Fraud seems to have permeated the election in Milwaukee, where John Kerry got his margin of victory; he carried Wisconsin by around 11,000 votes. The Milwaukee investigation has revealed that the number of ballots counted there exceeds, by 4,609, the number of people recorded as voting. There is no evident explanation for this other than ballot box stuffing. In addition, investigators found "more than 200 cases of felons voting illegally...

Washington -- The House Tuesday tacked on a provision to President Bush's emergency $81.3 billion war spending legislation that would make it all but illegal for California to issue driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants. By voice vote, the Republican-led House added the driver's license provision -- and the other immigration security measures it had approved as a separate bill in February -- to the spending legislation that will help pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The House is expected to approve the war spending bill today and send it to the Senate, where the immigration provisions create a...

http://www.dailybulletin.com/Stories/0,1413,203~21481~2713534,00.html Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Article Published: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 - 8:28:22 PM PST 'Save Our License' may face state probe By SARA A. CARTER, STAFF WRITER The Secretary of State's Political Reform Division has ordered Save Our License, a group opposed to driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, to refile all its committee documents and submit all its campaign finance data. Meanwhile, a group representing Latino and church groups across the nation this week filed a formal complaint with the state Fair Political Practices Commission, saying Save Our License willfully violated campaign finance laws. The state order and FPPC...

Gov. Schwarzenegger's got a "hot issue" poll going including on the driver's licenses for illegals. Gill Cedillo is threatening to pass this in the legislature. The Gov.'s poll number is (916) 445-2841. 5 takes you to the poll menu. 2 is the licenses for illegals issue. 1 is in favor of licenses for illegals. 2 is opposed to licenses for illegals.

SACRAMENTO -- "Have you written anything about the threat to hold up the budget over the drivers' license issue?" Assembly Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy asked me. He wanted me to contribute to a small flurry of news stories this week saying Latino lawmakers were thinking about threatening to block passage of the budget until Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger agrees to sign a bill making drivers' licenses available to illegal immigrants. No, I said. I didn't think it was a serious threat, I told him, even though Latinos may have enough seats in the Assembly and Senate to pull it off. But...

Note to FR, from summer: FYI -- I am posting here below: (1) an email I sent to Gov Bush today, (2) his email response to me, and (3) another email response he directed to me, and you, from his office. As most people here know (because I wrote about it at length on FR), I previously had a long dialogue with Gov Bush about education, via email. And, at times, I have emailed him about issues of concern to people on FR. Consequently, this is another exclusive for you. summer ----------------------------------------------- Email #1, from me to Gov Bush, today:...

<p>RICHMOND — The Department of Motor Vehicles has thus far canceled more than 1,300 licenses of drivers who didn't respond to the agency's request to verify they got their licenses legally.</p> <p>DMV officials said yesterday that 1,361 drivers in Northern Virginia either failed to respond by yesterday's deadline or their responses couldn't be verified.</p>

Kansas Gets Its Own Gray Davis Here's what the good people of Kansas get for electing a leftist Democrat as governor: their very own version of Gray Davis to abet the state's foreign criminals. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has threatened (or, as the P.C.-crazed Wichita Eagle puts it, "promised") to work at letting illegal aliens receive driver's licenses and, unlike American citizens from other states, pay lower in-state tuition. At a weekend powwow sponsored by the Wichita Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, participants urged Sebelius to find ways to bring more Spanish-language classes to the state for those who refuse to learn...

HOUSE BILL 838 Prohibiting the Motor Vehicle Administration from requiring an applicant for a driver's license to provide information regarding national origin or immigration status; clarifying that an applicant may provide a birth certificate issued by the United States, a United States territory, or a foreign government as proof of age or identity; requiring the Administration to accept specified documents as proof of age and identity; etc.

A Times Editorial No drivers' licenses for illegals © St. Petersburg Times published May 3, 2002 Democratic state Rep. Bob Henriquez of Tampa says the tighter procedures adopted by the state driver's license bureau Sept. 11 are disadvantaging Hispanics in his district, particularly undocumented workers. He says the state might want to consider providing a special driver's license to people here illegally. Come again? While we understand that many Hispanics here illegally are contributing to the state's economy by working hard for little pay -- picking produce on farms, washing dishes in restaurants and making beds in hotels -- the...