I compare this to furnishing blank checks to a paroled, felon, check forger.
Here in the two-animal zoo of Tennessee (donkeys and RINOs) the law was changed during the summer of 2001 to no longer require proof of SSI registration when applying for a driver's license. We were told it was passed for highway safety concerns when it was actually done to grant illegals the trappings of citizenship (quickly signed by a Republican governor, no less).
Tennessee found illegal immigrants coming from all over the United States for the express purpose of getting a driver's license, then returning to their base states for easy transferals. Just a few months later 19 Middle Eastern fanatics, many possessing legitimate driver's licenses from other lax states, used them to board airliners and fly into history.
Since then a few conservatives have worked hard to get that modification repealed. This certificate program, while certainly a compromise, represents a tremendous victory over the illegal alien lobby that has everything it's way for so long. Until the Federal government starts rounding up illegal aliens and their employers get fitted for orange jumpsuits this measure at least starts the ball rolling toward reform.