More Lunacy In Sacramento

[realtraveller]

If you're a citizen driving without a valid license, your car will be impounded.

Under a new bill introduced in Sacramento, if you are an illegal immigrant driving without a license, you're car will not be impounded.

So if you are breaking two laws, you get off. If you're breaking just one, your car is taken away. If you're a citizen you get treated worse than if you're an illegal. No equal protection problems there, noooo.

http://www.presstelegram.com/Stories...854135,00.html

Who does Cedillo think he represents anyway. The citizens of California or the citizens of other countries breaking our laws?

[erik_kosberg]

Stymied by his efforts to provide driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, has proposed a measure that would exempt undocumented motorists from vehicle-impound laws.

Well, it's not like he hasn't tried a reasonable approach and been rebuffed. And this new bill is just a tactical move, it's not as if it will become law.

[realtraveller]

The so-called 'reasonable' approach wasn't reasonable to the voters in the recall election. It was one of the major reasons Gray Davis was booted out of office. Even this legislator recognized defeat when the 'driver's license for illegal aliens bill' was rescinded by the legislature shortly after Schwarzennegger was elected.

It also isn't 'reasonable' to a majority of the Congress. The Real ID act which passed the House is going to pass the Senate in the next few days. It prohibits states from issuing driver's licenses to anyone who cannot prove they are legally in the US.

When the people of California have spoken loudly and clearly, one wonders who is lining the pockets of legilators like this one that they would risk political suicide like this? Believe me, this is getting a lot of radio play here.

After all, the supposed argument for giving illegals driver's licenses was to make ther roads safer.

How making driving without a license in essence free of any penalty makes the roads safer is a real head scratcher.

[erik_kosberg]

Who does Cedillo think he represents anyway.

The people of his district? Many of whom are Latino? Many of whom, even if citizens or here legally have a lot of friends and relatives who are here without documentation?

It also isn't 'reasonable' to a majority of the Congress. The Real ID act which passed the House is going to pass the Senate in the next few days.

Supporters of "Real ID" legislation knew that they couldn't get the bill passed on its own so it got rolled into the supplemental bill to pay for Iraq and Afghanistan so that anyone who voted against it could be labelled as "not supporting our troops."

[drmomentum[$]]

erik_kosberg said

it got rolled into the supplemental bill to pay for Iraq and Afghanistan so that anyone who voted against it could be labelled as "not supporting our troops."

No one would ever do that to someone! How can you even suggest such a thing? What country do you think we're living in?

Feigning Shock,
-JP

[erik_kosberg]

More on “REAL ID”:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050510/...r_s_licenses_4

Some states have threatened to challenge the new driver's license orders in court and even disobey them.

[realtraveller]

Challenge in court? On what grounds.

Disobey? And have the state's citizens prevented from boarding a plane or entering a federal building?

I don't think so.

18 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 had U. S. driver's licenses that let them drive around the country and board planes planning terrorism. And the states are worried about a little extra paperwork? Awww.