Posted on 02/04/2011 1:57:58 PM PST by epithermal
OLYMPIA – A legislative hearing over a proposal to make driver’s license applicants give the state a Social Security number and a verifiable residence was abruptly halted Thursday after some members of the audience called the plan racist and anti-immigrant.
Senate Transportation Chairwoman Mary Margaret Haugen, D-Camano Island, ended the hearing when several people in the audience tried to shout her down over the purpose of Senate Bill 5407.
The panel had listened to a full hour of testimony, with some witnesses saying the bill would make the state safer by preventing terrorists from obtaining licenses and others who said it would make the state less safe because undocumented immigrants would still drive, but without licenses or insurance.
Haugen insisted several times the bill wasn’t about immigration: “To work in this country, you have to have a Social Security Number. We’re just asking for a Social Security number.”
When she asked Department of Licensing staff to explain how the bill would work, they said applicants would be asked for the number, as they are now. If there’s any question about residence, licensing staff must “establish whether they are lawfully present” in the state.
“So it is about immigration,” a member of the audience said loudly.
“You want to target brown people and the working poor,” said another, even louder.
Haugen told legislative security to remove those two people, which prompted other people to join in that the bill was targeting immigrants. She banged the gavel and adjourned the committee without getting the full answer from licensing staff or hearing testimony on three other bills.
The panel will return to the issue later, she said.
Smack a chair over their heads. Sure to shut them up. God help them if I was there. I’m sick and f’ing tired of illegals and their bullying tactics. Son of a b!tches have no right to be here and yet you and I are being denied our God-given, hard-fought -for right to have our voices heard in our own cities and town councils by foreign invaders.
See my post. I’m with you.
Great!!
Now if you can just get those over-paid government AH’s to stop kissing illegal alien butt.
“You want to target brown people and the working poor,” said another, even louder.
Why divide brown people and working poor?
As if people of brown skinned race and working poor are separate categories and,further implies that people of other races only are the working poor,but doesn’t specify the race and ethnicities of working poor among the races. It’s divisiveness.
It could also be taken as meaning that “brown” ( not sure what that means in reality) people are the working poor.
So we have all of this ethnic and racial divisiveness to sort out before we even get to the issue of Social Security cards.
It makes the rest complete nonsense because,with very few exceptions,every American will have a Social Security number. So how could brown people and the working poor (none of whom according to this statement are brown people possibly) Americans be targeted,since it’s reasonable to assume they have Social Security numbers?
BTW,does the author contend that white working poor are being targeted?
>I remember reading that Oregon passed a law that all applicants for licenses would have to prove legal residence. The new license applications went down by 2 thirds! ( or thereabouts).<
far worse in Vancouver Canada where I spent Christmas with family...
I accompanied my cousin to the canadian version of the DMV, and his DR LIC is a mailbox but how it was printed is “suite #” plus he has a US DR Lic. I was absolutely stunned when the clerk simply asked him on the spot when renewing his license: “do you own any driver’s license outside of canada”
Him: “no”
Clerk:”Oh very well, just step up and have your picture taken and it should be in your residence within 2 weeks”.
What it boils down to is, “Latinos are superior, and the laws that apply to everyone else should not apply to them.” Period.
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