Posted on 02/13/2020 9:05:30 AM PST by USA Conservative
I will say, opposition to voter ID laws is strange. If the problem is that not everyone can afford an ID or has easy access to the DMV, states should work to ameliorate those issues. Free IDs for those who can’t afford one, full online registration.
I say this because too many illegals end up voting in our elections.
No debate on Election Security should go forward without first agreeing that Voter ID (Identification) must play a very strong part in any final agreement. Without Voter ID, it is all so meaningless!
The democrats are getting ready for 2020 and already made a small step towards voter fraud.
Virginia lawmakers passed legislation in both chambers of the state legislature that would allow illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses, a consequence of the state capitol’s newly minted Democratic majority.
Amid a rush before the end of the Virginia General Assembly’s “crossover” deadline Tuesday, lawmakers in both the state Senate and the House of Delegates passed separate bills allowing undocumented immigrants to legally drive on the state’s roadways. HB 1211 and SB 34 both passed their respective chambers Tuesday, the last day legislation could cross over to the other chamber for consideration.
State senators passed SB 34 by a margin of 22-18. The Senate version, which Democratic state Sen. Scott Surovell introduced, permits illegal aliens living in the state to obtain a standard driver’s license, but with certain conditions. The undocumented applicants must prove they’ve filed an income tax return, and the cards would also include text stating that it’s not a valid form of ID for federal, voting or public benefit purposes.
The House version, which Democratic Del. Kathy Tran introduced, passed by a margin of 57-42 and is largely similar to its Senate counterpart. The House bill, however, goes further by calling for the IDs to be conventional driver’s licenses.
f Virginia passes the driver’s license measure, it will follow a growing national trend of rewarding illegal immigrants with official government documents. Just a few months ago New York became the 13th state to offer illegal immigrants driver’s licenses, even though local DMV clerks throughout the state expressed deep concern about their ability to authenticate the unfamiliar documents—written in foreign languages—acceptable under the new law to obtain a license. One county clerk in the state’s eastern region said in a local news report that his office, which services a population of about 160,000, will not issue licenses to illegal aliens and instead will let the state deal with the applicants. Another DMV clerk in the state’s southern tier blasted lawmakers for leaving her and her colleagues to deal with the mess.
Besides New York, a dozen states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. They include California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Vermont and Washington. More than half of the states passed their measures in 2013. In 2019 several states—including Florida, Kansas, Minnesota and North Carolina—introduced legislation to grant illegal aliens driver’s licenses, but those haven’t been resolved and it’s not clear if they’ll pass. The Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) has challenged New York’s measure, writing in a federal court filing that it conflicts with federal law.
The Democrats can’t stop their only concern is how to bring in more illegals into their so-called sanctuary cities!
We all know that means more voters for them because real Americans don’t trust them and they have to rely on these votes to get elected!
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This is so sad. I expect this from my blue state. But Virginia? I guess it is true they have been lost to the Left.
Undocumented should be allowed IA’s, but not American licenses.
The Virginia counties contiguous to The D.C. Deep State rule the Commonwealth now.
They decry U.S. values and sovereignty. They’re digging their own tomb, and they don’t even comprehend it.
Undocumented should be allowed 30 days to gtfo or we will round um up and kick them out.
Only just condisering Virgina was ruled by General Santa Ana before the US “bought” it after the American invasion of Mexico.
That’s what I have heard.
Sad. I look at states like Texas (and formerly Virginia) as beacons of light, and when one of those goes out, it discourages me.
Cut off the security checkpoint access at airports since they do not have a valid license approved by the United States Federal government.
Virginia is not in compliance.
Thisis is just one more example of Democrats trying to destroy American culture leading to destruction of the USA.
“Undocumented should be allowed IA’s, but not American licenses.”
IA’s = ID’s?
“undocumented”?!
Even the article called them illegals.
They are here ILLEGALLY.
They should be ARRESTED.
patriot voters have got to stop being so stubbornly "principled" that they elect leftist rats into office.....
IA’s are international driver licence s. It would allow them to drive, but also would be identifiable in preventing from voting.
“opposition to voter ID laws is strange”
India, a place where the concept of indoor plumbing confounds hundreds of millions, where hundreds of millions of people go outside to do #2, India has voter ID laws.
Thanks.
Get your indictments in order DOJ. These states need to go down
BS, illegal grass crawling aliens should only be allowed to get the hell out of my Country. If not, rounded up and a mass deportation should take place.
This is all well and good but it does not prevent these illegal grass crawling scum to vote and vote they will
IAs are issued to people that are LEGAL in the country. These are ILLEGALs we are talking about.
I meant for legals as well.
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