Behind the “logic” . . .
Eliot Spitzer keeps insisting that giving licenses to illegal aliens — oh, sorry, that’s “our immigrant community” who “deserve the opportunity to get drivers licenses” — I almost “lost all contact with reality” there for a second! — is a fine and sensible idea because it will make us safer.
Starting at 1:37:
It will make us safer. Let there be no mistake: we will be safer with this policy. Safer because people will not drive with forged, fabricated social security numbers that gave them drivers licenses and fake names based on false identification.
Huh?
Let’s try again. Here he is in a Newsday article that promises to go “beyond soundbytes”:
Spitzer: “The underlying objective here is to make everyone safer. This policy will finally generate a driver’s license that will be used by people we can actually identify. They will have to provide a foreign passport that we can check and validate and instead of having a million people living in the shadows without having any idea who they are.”
Sorry, but this doesn’t compute for me. How are we made safer? A million shadow people are suddenly going to become better drivers because the state has taken over the illegal documentation biz from the black market SS# crowd?
Maybe some examples would help . . .
Will our DMV offices now be conducting background checks on immigrants and calling the police if they turn out to be criminals? Or, um, bad drivers?
Will they be calling the Immigration Service to facilitate deportations of illegals, thereby reducing the “million people living in the shadows” to a more manageable number? Hmmm. Methinks we’ll next need a law requiring illegals to get their driver’s licenses or they may not choose to visit the DMV . . .
Oh oh wait! Does Spitzer suppose hoards of immigrants will learn, finally, that they shouldn’t be driving without corrective lenses? Maybe that’s it!
You know why this whole “we’ll be safer” line rings so false? Because it’s a lie.
This is about votes.
Our state’s voter registration form asks for a NYS driver’s license number as the preferred form of identification.
You’re asked to swear that you’re a resident — but under Spitzer’s new plan, the ID you present doesn’t validate your claim. It’s all honor system. We’re asking people who have come into our country illegally — people who, by definition, are surviving by lying — to pretty please not lie.
Occam’s razer. Spitzer is trying to make it easier for non-U.S. citizens to vote in U.S. elections.
He’s buying foreign votes.
I don’t like that.
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October 14th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
I don’t like it either. However, “politicians lying” is almost a redundancy, in a sense. A shame.
Preach it, K!
John
October 14th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
I don’t really mean to make this blog political but I’m really sickened by how this state is governed . . .