World Net Daily: Schwarzenegger Ready To license Illegal Aliens (Driver's Licenses)

World Net Daily ^ | January 30, 2004 | WorldNetDaily.com

[Pubbie]

Though he campaigned hard against it, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is negotiating with a Democratic state lawmaker to draft a bill that would grant driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

Schwarzenegger's first act as governor last fall was to repeal SB 60, signed by then-Gov. Gray Davis, which would have opened the road for the estimated 2 million illegal immigrants of driving age in the Golden State.

This week, however, the new governor said he was "absolutely positive we'll come up with a great bill" to replace SB 60, opposed by 70 percent of California voters, according to exit polling during the October recall election.

Schwarzenegger said his office has been working closely to craft a successor to SB 60 with state Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, a former member of MeCha, the radical Latino student movement demanding annexation of all southwestern states.

"This is the way we move forward," Schwarzenegger said at a Sacramento Press Club lunch Tuesday, according to the Riverside Press-Enterprise.

Despite opposition from many Republicans and a majority of Californians, the governor said he is confident of the outcome.

"It's one of those things that we'll all have to get together and see that this is a good idea and this is the way we move forward," Schwarzenegger said, according to the Riverside paper. "I'm talking with my Republican friends all the time about it and also with my Democratic friends. We will do it."

Cedillo's chief of staff, Dan Savage, said tentative agreement has been reached to grant driver licenses to all illegal immigrants, the Press-Enterprise reported. The licenses would look identical to those of other residents.

Savage said there were two sticking points in the earlier bill -- insurance requirements and verifying applicants' identities.

Republicans have demanded applicants be subject to background checks, but Savage said that has not been a main topic during the negotiations, according to the Press-Enterprise.

A co-author of the legislation repealing SB 60, Assemblyman John J. Benoit, R-Palm Desert, remains firmly opposed to the plan.

"To actually give a legal document to an illegal immigrant, I'm not there," Benoit told the Riverside paper.

But, Jesse Diaz, 39, a graduate student at UC Riverside and a member of the Mexican-American Political Foundation Backers, sees it as a practical move.

"There's definitely a need for it," said. "They're going to drive regardless. It's just now the rules will be safer. They're going to have insurance. There will be driver's training. It will be great."

Davis signed SB 60 in September after blocking a similar bill in 2002, raising charges he was pandering to Latinos before the recall vote.

In a statement after signing the repeal Dec. 3, Schwarzenegger said:"The swift bipartisan passage of this legislation is a perfect example of how the peoples' will can change politics-as-usual in Sacramento.

Benoit said President Bush's proposal to give illegal workers temporary status might change the debate. If the measure passes Congress, Republicans might be more receptive to giving driver licenses to people with temporary work permits, he suggested.

[Pubbie]

You know it will also piss off voters that are on the fence about voting for the bonds.

I now hope the bonds fail just so it gives SchwarzenKennedy a big juicy $15 Billion distraction.

[Roscoe]

"Tentative agreement has been reached to grantdriver licenses to all undocumented immigrants, with the licenses looking identical to those of other residents..."

http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:xXnMKmTiAIAJ:www.press-enterprise.com/avantgo/NEWS_licens28.html

[Feiny]

Arnold is about one thing and one thing only....HIMSELF.
I voted for him because I thought he would be able to stop the spending madness in Sacramento. The Dems would have fought McClintock on every issue. Arnold will get things done. I just never imagined this would be one of them.

[Pubbie]

Thanks.

[RnMomof7]

This is no surprise

[DiamondDon1]

Hello Pubbie:

That figures..., when we were told that McClintock was "unelectable" and Arnold was really a good guy that after all had the same platforms as Tom, however we "Tombots" resisted. Finally after being constantly berated by Arnoids I finally relented (under the avoiding Cruz clause of "How to Revise Conservative Principles"...).

Now I see what happens when principles are cut, shaved, and trimmed to the point of complete deletion.

I want to thank all those who decided Arnold was the "man". Thank you for your wisdom about "Davis-Lite". Finally, I definately want to thank you for convincing me to join a liberal cause in the name of "electability".

Sorry, but next time (and there will be one) I vote conservative...period. You can all berate me, slam me, and question my principles...but now I know where the slippery slope leads...liberalism.

DD

[lonevoice]

This looks like the companion thread to your article...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068277/posts

SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Supreme Court will get involved in a two-decade long fight over whether Mexican trucks and busses can do business in the United States.

The court has agreed to hear the Bush administration's appeal of a 1994 NAFTA ruling that keeps Mexican trucks off American roads until an environmental study is completed.

"The major problems are diesel emissions, particularly in the border states and they can be very severe and cause asthma and many, many problems," said Joan Claybrook of the public interest group Public Citizen (search).

President Bush feels Mexican trucks can meet U.S. safety guidelines and thinks allowing door-to-door deliveries will cut down on shipping costs and ultimately benefit consumers.

But critics say Bush is using the trucking issue to forge better ties with Mexico and special interest groups while ignoring the American worker.

"The Bush administration has already sent out enough American jobs outside of this country," said Teamsters spokesman Bret Caldwell. "It's time we stood up for good-paying, high-wage productive jobs in this country and kept them here."

[Sabertooth]

Those right-wing nut McClintock supporters, who 'wasted their vote', are looking better every day.

Get ready for Arnold to get behind the Bush Amnesty, too.

This fix has been in since Karl Rove set up the Schwarzenegger candidacy at the Bohemian Gove last july.

From what we've hear, the Republican hierarchy -- especially those close to former Gov. Pete Wilson -- would favor Schwarzenegger. At least that's the word that came out of the Bohemian Grove this past weekend, where a number of state and national GOPers, including presidential adviser Karl Rove, happened to have gathered at a club getaway.
San Francisco Chronicle
July 23rd, 2003

[Little Ray]

IF the PRK does this, doesn't it put an end to the validity of Drivers Licences as IDs?

[Reaganwuzthebest]

You know it will also piss off voters that are on the fence about voting for the bonds.

Watch his poll ratings sink in the coming weeks. He won't get much support for anything once he gets everyone angry at him.

[Roscoe]

President Bush feels Mexican trucks can meet U.S. safety guidelines and thinks allowing door-to-door deliveries will cut down on shipping costs and ultimately benefit consumers.

The illegal aliens will need driver's licenses to drive those trucks.

[InsensitiveConservative]

If the Prez is successful with this amnesty gift then 'illegal' won't be an issue. A guest worker won't be considered a illegal immigrant and the CDL will be a 'right'.


GRRRR!

[Carry_Okie]

Sorry, but next time (and there will be one) I vote conservative...period. You can all berate me, slam me, and question my principles...but now I know where the slippery slope leads...liberalism.

I wish you'd learned that when we got Pete Wilson. He was no conservative either, and did enormous damage to conservative candidates via his clout in party politics.

[TigersEye]

This man talks about principles. An underrated characteristic.

[Roscoe]

Time to print up more CDL tests in other languages.

[Carry_Okie]

Pubbie, thank you for a show of integrity. It is too rare.

As for the rest of you, a vote for Arnold was a vote for Bustamante, on steroids.

He has appointed a numerical majority of leftist Democrats to State Boards. He is deregulating power pricing without deregulating supply. He hasn't touched those illegal power bonds. Workmans comp reform is stalled. He has already renegged on taxes. He hasn't done diddly about real spending cuts. He has instead cut a deal with the teachers' union. Arnold had the unmitigated gall to say that he wouldn't take money from special interests and then told us later that "special interests" meant prison guards and tribes. He took money from Wall Street investment houses holding power bonds, he illegally piled in his own cash into his campaign, he took money from real estate interests, and now he's raking in campaign cash at a rate that exceeds the most corrupt governor in California history and largely from the same interests as funded Davis. No special interests, indeed.

So now, it's this: driver's licenses for illegals, in direct opposition to the single principal issue upon which he was elected.

The rest of you on the above list were warned with arguments supported by facts. You chose to sell out your supposed principles to back a confirmed liar with a vicious campaign of fear, simply because the Cal-GOP said so, even though you were warned that Parsky and crew don't give a crap about Republican principles and hate conservatives. You are accountable for great damage to this conservative forum and the conservative cause in general. It's going to get worse. I'm not letting any of you off the hook for three long years unless you recant. I hope you've learned your lesson, but I doubt it.

[Pubbie]

Hastert said the Amnesty plan won't pass a day or two ago.

So DC won't come out and save Arnie's bacon by passing a massive amnesty and therefore justify the new SB 60 law.

[Carry_Okie]

He won't get much support for anything once he gets everyone angry at him.

He doesn't care; he can always run as a Democrat.

[Sabertooth]

Arnold is about one thing and one thing only....HIMSELF.
I voted for him because I thought he would be able to stop the spending madness in Sacramento. The Dems would have fought McClintock on every issue. Arnold will get things done. I just never imagined this would be one of them.

From the Recall Campaign:

"Proposition 187 has been resolved by the courts. It is time to move on. More than 2.3 million undocumented immigrants currently live in California. They cannot continue to live underground. I will work with federal officials to address this problem."
Schwarzenegger campaign website - joinarnold.com

Said Proposition 187, the 1994 measure that denied many services to illegal immigrants, was "history" because it has been largely voided by the courts. He supported the proposition at the time voters approved it. "Now we have to move forward with the whole thingand to look at it, what we're going to do with all the people that are undocumented immigrants here in this state. What should we do? Should we have them to stay here, which I think is the right way to do, but how do you then include them in our society, how do you make it official, how do you make it legal?" he said. He added he would try to team up with other states with large immigrant populations and lobby the federal government to address the issue.
Associated Press - August 27th, 2003

Schwarzenegger, who legally immigrated to this country from Austria in 1968, opposed issuing driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants. But he didn't rule out public services or amnesty for those who come into the country illegally.

He said he would work with other states to pressure the federal government, which controls immigration, to "come up with a solution once and for all." He also said allowing undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States is "the right thing to do."
Sacramento Bee – August 28th, 2003

Schwarzenegger criticized Davis for signing a bill granting driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants, saying, "We're leaving ourselves wide open to terrorism." And he repeated his support for a guest-worker visa program -- "then they can (get) driver's licenses hooked together with insurance."
Sacramento Bee - September 9th, 2003

Schwarzenegger said he opposed the bill because it would "bring danger to our state" because it doesn't require background checks of illegal immigrants.

He did, however, say he supported proposed federal legislation that would help those in the United States illegally become legal residents more quickly.
Sacramento Bee - September 17th, 2003

Since, during the campaign, Arnold Schwarzenegger always supported legalizing Illegal Aliens and then giving them drivers' licenses, how meaningful could his promises to support the overturning of SB60 have been?

[Area51]

Calling all "r"nold bots, Clean up in Isle 9!


Just remember folks, it is better to have a fake "r" than a real one!

Vote "R"nold, cause he can win! Vote for "R"nold cause he is the less of the two evils. Vote "r"nold or you'll end up with liberal. Party over Principle always! (/RINO stampede rant)

Hey, where have I heard that before? :)