And why Tennessee? Is it just corrupted in the area of licensing?
That's about the same as a legal one here in Holland! Really!
How on earth is carelessly flinging out drivers licensees to whomever asks for one going to increase the amount of people who have insurance and understand the rules of the road???
By this logic, if we’d grant citizenship to everyone who wanted it, we wouldn’t have any illegal immigrants, and more law abiding, loyal citizens.
"It is a federal requirement of the INS to find out whether someone is here legally or not," Colson said. "It is not our obligation at this particular point."
I suppose that if Tennessee police discovered a major counterfeiting operation, they would determine that it was the Secret Service’s obligation at that particular point.
If people aren’t supposed to be in this country, we should all try to discover and repatriate them at every opportunity.
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
Typical liberal, using the old "What about the children?!?" scare tactic to incite hysteria. These people are truly shameless.
Phil Valentine pointed out that this is the key sentence. The Construction/Road Building and Agriculture interests are the strongest lobbies in Tennessee. They want to keep the cost of labor low. They have financed enough politicians to get their way. Throw in the hotel industry, like Gaylord, that actually flies in workers from Latin countries to lower costs and we have little means of opposing this cabal.
Several states are now refusing to recognize a Tennessee driver's license as means of identity proof and rightly so. All Tennesseans will suffer from this aspect. I wish someone would send Tennessee some real conservatives. We only have a choice between Dems and RINOs. Howard Baker and Lamar Alexander set the trend and it rolls on. To the bulk of the Tennessee Republican Party, the only thing that matters is MONEY. If something increases profits then it's good no matter what else may come by enacting the legislation.
The Feds do deserve some blame. Until recently, Tennessee had one INS office in Memphis to serve the entire state! There have been horror stories of local police arresting illegals only to be told by the INS that they have no time or room to pickup and care for the illegals. The police have thus stopped wasting their time by trying to do anything about the situation.
Does giving them licenses suddenly make them safer? They broke laws just to get here, how much respect for our other laws do you expect them to have? How would they drive when they are desparate to get away from an IMS vehicle that is following them? Do you want your children crossing the street then?
Disgusting is Right. Of what concern is it to a highway commissioner to speak out about the illegal labor needs of certain TN industries? Where is that in Colson's job description? This is a clear conflict of interest and a good indiction that some of these TN bureaucrats are on the take with businesses that peddle in the illegal job market.
Most distrubing is that these hucksters don't care a wit that this perversity makes it possible for terrorists to obtain IDs without background checks much less how it hurts local citizens working for work.
Welcome to today’s America. Anything can be bought in the political arena at the right price.
This is just the tip of the iceberg re giving licenses to illegal aliens. Of course what political party do 99.999999999999999999999999% of Illegal aliens vote for and vote often for?
Both the Democratic and Republican parties look at elections as simply a formality in which party loyalists vote for their party's candidate and both ambivalent and disgusted voters tend to approach voting with a "vote for the lesser of two evils" philosophy. As long as the majority of American voters keep thinking and voting this way, major problems such as illegal immigration will never be resolved.
The time has come for each patriotic American voter who is "mad as hell" at ineffective government to seriously consider voting for a third party candidate because our current two party political system is no longer working for us.
The United States today is going through one of the most corrupt periods in its long history. We, the people of the United States, created a brand new government from scratch 226 years ago. The time is now upon us to do some major tinkering to get our government working right again. The American voters collectively have a great amount of power, but unless we start to use it wisely and effectively at election time, it does us no good to possess it.
This line is worn out. Try something else for a change.
Can you hear me out there? GET A LIFE AND A NEW LINE!! I'm bored.
Thanks for the ping 'O toothy one.