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Pritzker signs bill allowing immigrants to become driving instructors
Wand News (Illinois) ^ | 08/21/2025 | Mike Miletich

Posted on 08/23/2025 12:42:51 PM PDT by DFG

Illinois started to provide standard driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants last year. Gov. JB Pritzker has now signed a bill into law to allow them to become driving instructors.

In 2013, Illinois led the country as one of the first states to issue temporary visitor driver's licenses to help drivers who passed road tests regardless of immigration status. The 2024 law allowed undocumented immigrants to receive standard IDs without the large purple mark stating not valid for identification.

House Bill 3125 will allow anyone with a TVDL for at least two years to teach driving courses. Sponsors said this change will help expand the people eligible to become driving instructors without reducing qualifications for the job.

"Some of these qualifications include good moral character, a criminal background check, passing an exam from the Secretary of State's office on traffic laws and safe driving practices, while being able to physically operate a motor vehicle safely and graduating from an accredited high school," said Sen. Karina Villa (D-West Chicago).

Potential driving instructors must also be authorized to work in the United States.

Yet, House and Senate Republicans oppose the idea. Some said they know there is a growing demand for driving instructors, but this is not the right solution.

House Bill 3125 passed out of the Senate on a 37-20 vote. The measure received a 75-38 vote in the House.

The new law will take effect on Jan. 1.

(Excerpt) Read more at wandtv.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
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1 posted on 08/23/2025 12:42:51 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

illegal alien ≠ immigrant


2 posted on 08/23/2025 12:46:03 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: DFG

Even the Babylon Bee can’t come close to reality, which has become a sick joke.


3 posted on 08/23/2025 12:46:39 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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4 posted on 08/23/2025 12:49:07 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: DFG

Why not cops?


5 posted on 08/23/2025 12:51:32 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: DFG

The Prickster needs to be arrested right now.


6 posted on 08/23/2025 12:51:37 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialist communism, but you will have to shoot your way out.)
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To: DFG

No speak a da engrish


7 posted on 08/23/2025 12:52:22 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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I suppose this is OK if:

1) applicant reads, speaks, writes USA English perfectly,
2) has USA citizenship application in the works,
3) has gainful employment if this teaching gig is part-time,
4) has no minor or major criminal record,
5) has no gang or cartel associations (gang tattoos mean no job for you),
6) other things ... ??


8 posted on 08/23/2025 12:56:40 PM PDT by ByteMercenary (Election 2020 was stolen by mail-in voting.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Pronto. He will definitely lose serious weight on a prison diet.


9 posted on 08/23/2025 1:01:05 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: DFG

That illegal alien truck driver who killed 3 pulling a U-Turn would be perfect.

So many politicians feel free in recent years to display their abject hatred of Americans, it’s just amazing. I hope the MFer dies in a fire.


10 posted on 08/23/2025 1:02:56 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: DFG

The headline is deceiving.

There has never been a ban on “immigrants” being a driving instructors. Elon Musk, for example, would not be prevented from holding such a job just because he is an immigrant.


11 posted on 08/23/2025 1:04:15 PM PDT by Stingray51 ( )
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To: DFG

What could go wrong???


12 posted on 08/23/2025 1:06:22 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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“”issue temporary visitor driver’s licenses to help drivers””

HELP them do what?

Demand for driving instructors? WOW! Since when? Have never seen that on a list of high priorities for our country. Maybe only in IL? Just think - we go from day to day worrying about the lack of driving instructors in the country. We must do better! Sarcasm is a “must” when writing about IL.....


13 posted on 08/23/2025 1:09:19 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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This guy, Prictzker, needs ventilation...


14 posted on 08/23/2025 1:09:57 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: Robert DeLong

As I read the title I thought it was a Babylon Bee article. And to think how far Illinois has fallen since Abraham Lincoln!


15 posted on 08/23/2025 1:09:59 PM PDT by Maudeen (https://patburt.com/ (a true story to share); https://thereishopeinjesus.com/)
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Pritzker signs bill allowing immigrants to become driving instructors

This is an intentional slap in the face to the family of the victims down in Florida!

16 posted on 08/23/2025 1:14:39 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (No, I'm DEFINITELY NOT tired of WINNING!)
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Meanwhile, a related update...

ICE arrests brother of illegal immigrant trucker in deadly Florida Turnpike wreck Harneet Singh was a passenger in the truck that allegedly made a deadly U-turn on a Florida turnpike

17 posted on 08/23/2025 1:15:28 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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Immigrants? Do you mean foreign-born persons who applied and became US citizens legally were not allowed to be driving instructors in Illinois????


18 posted on 08/23/2025 1:18:33 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
Not just Florida...

From NYS. Still no info on the immigration status of the driver, the immigration status of the passengers, or why sealt belt use by passengers was allowed to be optional...

3 NJ Residents Among 5 Killed In New York Tour Bus Crash The bus was returning from Niagara Falls on Friday when the crash occurred, authorities said.

19 posted on 08/23/2025 1:18:55 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: DFG

Pritzger is nuts. Totally.


20 posted on 08/23/2025 1:19:59 PM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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