Spitzer and the Alien DL Caper
New York Governor Spitzer is proposing drivers licenses for aliens just as California considered in the first months of the Schwarzeneggar Administration. This blogger favors the Spitzer proposal for the same reasons as he did the Californian.
First it creates a database for the cross-checking of alien living compliance and fraud prevention which has to occur to reduce the trafficking in lawfully present alien & American lives.
Secondly, it assures greater driver & road safety -- an issue which already haunts many Americans with risks and concerns of foreign drivers in the USA (albeit some have Int'l DL's and their home countrr licenses under the Rio Convention).
Like California's proposal, New York does not replace the immigration bureau of the United States government. Nor will the state withhold information conducive to enforcing the immigration laws; now will the state knowingly aid and abet a counter-force to lawful immigration.
Name checks have never been tougher in the ordinary state DL system now, thanks to Congress and the states lobbying by MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving); which should and can protect against out-of-state duplication.
If New York can enforce the law and prohibit corruption [bribery] enducing counterfeiting and doubled up names (a material problem and criminal advantage of the criminal immigrant underground); and require a minimum thumb-printing or index fingerprinting; then that state will have a government sharable database. That database is something California needs and stayed for the time-being. (Again, California decided against the alien DL option.)
Populist uproar aside, the permitted DL would enhance exposure of illegal alien presence and employment. And if this proposal makes them seem saps or patsies for getting one, so be it. The aliens (save in impersonated indigency) will pay for them; and receive a road or written test. A false statement will revoke the license; including the mis-use of a stolen or counterfeit one.
Now if we can just stop over friendly or collusive Americans from "losing" theirs for someone else to use; etc.
First it creates a database for the cross-checking of alien living compliance and fraud prevention which has to occur to reduce the trafficking in lawfully present alien & American lives.
Secondly, it assures greater driver & road safety -- an issue which already haunts many Americans with risks and concerns of foreign drivers in the USA (albeit some have Int'l DL's and their home countrr licenses under the Rio Convention).
Like California's proposal, New York does not replace the immigration bureau of the United States government. Nor will the state withhold information conducive to enforcing the immigration laws; now will the state knowingly aid and abet a counter-force to lawful immigration.
Name checks have never been tougher in the ordinary state DL system now, thanks to Congress and the states lobbying by MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving); which should and can protect against out-of-state duplication.
If New York can enforce the law and prohibit corruption [bribery] enducing counterfeiting and doubled up names (a material problem and criminal advantage of the criminal immigrant underground); and require a minimum thumb-printing or index fingerprinting; then that state will have a government sharable database. That database is something California needs and stayed for the time-being. (Again, California decided against the alien DL option.)
Populist uproar aside, the permitted DL would enhance exposure of illegal alien presence and employment. And if this proposal makes them seem saps or patsies for getting one, so be it. The aliens (save in impersonated indigency) will pay for them; and receive a road or written test. A false statement will revoke the license; including the mis-use of a stolen or counterfeit one.
Now if we can just stop over friendly or collusive Americans from "losing" theirs for someone else to use; etc.
posted by scotty of course at 12:56 PM
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