Posted on 12/09/2019 6:16:29 PM PST by lowbridge
As many as 80,000 people statewide who are living in the country illegally, including 30,000 on Long Island, will be able to obtain valid New York State driver’s licenses beginning Saturday.
The starting date follows years of conflict and a continuing divide among New Yorkers. Supporters say the law will make roads safer and help immigrant families prosper; opponents call the law nothing less than a tool for terrorists.
The measure, referred to as the Green Light Law, was passed earlier this year and signed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, making New York the 13th state to provide driver’s licenses to those in the country illegally.
The state will issue only standard driver’s licenses to those immigrants, which means they won’t be able to obtain trucker’s licenses or other commercial licenses. The standard licenses also won’t meet federal standards for identification and so the holders won’t be able to use them to board airplanes or enter federal facilities. Under the law, these licenses also “shall be visually identical” to standard licenses issued to U.S. citizens.
The Green Light Law also allows new kinds of records to be used by immigrants to apply for licenses. These include an unexpired passport from another country, an unexpired identification number from a consulate, and a foreign driver’s license that is valid or expired for less than 24 months. If an applicant doesn’t have a Social Security number, they need to sign an affidavit that they hadn’t been issued one.
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Cut off all federal funding to states in insurrection.
Voting??????
Yup, this is also a threat to valid elections.
Wait, shouldn’t this help ICE?
Subpoena the license records and pick them up!
America continues to commit national suicide, in so many ways, and this is just one.
80,000? Probably more like 800,000.
deBlasio needs the votes.
A healthy stretch of martial law might yet save the decent citizens of New York State.
Late to the party Massachusetts has been doing this for years.
This should make all NY driver’s licenses invalid as a form of ID for all federal purposes, including getting on an airplane, crossing a U.S. border, getting into a federal building, etc.
It should.
The Party of lawlessness, violence, and subjugation logically giving itself a voter insurance firewall.
There will be truly historic voter fraud from here until our nation as we knew it, simply no longer exists.
Which cannot be much longer in it’s current tragectory.
So by definition, then, to even issue the license it means the state of NY knows:
1) the illegal status of the applicant
2) their name and address
So why aren’t they being rounded up and put on a bus?
I don’t understand how CA, NY, can just go rogue unless they are declaring independence from the US.
Illegal. The governor should be arrested, tried and sent to prison for life in solitary.
Cognitive dissonance
After a certain date, I don’t recall it exactly, the standard NY driver license will NOT be good for boarding airlines or crossing borders. You must get one of the Enhanced licenses offered by the state.
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