I read a blog written by Local in Texas this evening and learned their thoughts on illegals gaining driver's licenses. Local in Texas believes illegals ought to be able to obtain a driver's license. By allowing them this privilege, they would be held to the same standards as everyone else. This would force them to pay all the same costs (insurance, fees, and fines).
I agree with Local in Texas, that everyone should be forced to be held accountable and have to pay the same costs. Where I seem to have run into a slight problem was the idea of allowing illegals to obtain drivers licenses legally. I think the state's first priority ought to be forcing illegals to become US citizens. If they are not willing to do this, like many aren't, they ought to be sent packing.
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Illegal immigrants having rights? Wouldn’t that only include a guarantee at applying to becoming a citizen otherwise a free trip back to their home country?
How in the world could anyone rationalize that by giving illegal immigrants a driver’s license is going to get them to pay the same costs? Do they not understand that they don’t decide to not have insurance because they can’t, they don’t because it cost money. The standard of living for most illegal immigrants doesn’t budget the amount needed for things like registration or insurance or safety inspections, rather most are just trying to get by. Besides, if they applied for a driver’s license, wouldn’t that make them an easy target to be found?
That brings up a whole other topic, funny enough, that it actually wouldn’t make them more discoverable because our government knows exactly where they are! Yet, we don’t do much about it. Now don’t get me wrong, I think everyone deserves a fair chance to be a citizen but when someone doesn’t bother to learn our language, do you think there are very educated on our street laws, particularly those regarding safety? Te subject doesn’t really give me warm fuzzies when I contemplate this subject as I load my small children into the car for a local trip.
Now this is in no way an attack on illegal immigrants whatsoever! I have good friends that are not exactly citizens but you wouldn’t know it unless they told you. They can communicate efficiently, they have a driver’s license, they carry full coverage insurance and they even pay taxes.
Now those that go to our colleges, that’s another fun one. Most do not realize that when you “pay for college” and your total is say $2,000.00 a semester, your real total is anywhere between two to three times that depending on the school, which is subsidized by the government. Now when an illegal goes to one of our schools, even if they don’t take advantage of grants r scholarships, they are still using up funding for the rest of us.
Now I have gone off on a tangent but again, to those that feel that giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants will solve our higher insurance rates – you are sadly mistaken. This will only make them harder to distinguish from true citizens. Now the new technology that links insurance coverage with your plates – that is going to make a huge difference!
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