Undocumented immigrants in Massachusetts are finding several unlikely allies in their quest to obtain driver's licenses: police chiefs.
Chiefs in Fitchburg, Somerville, Chelsea, Milford, and Framingham say that permitting undocumented immigrants to obtain licenses would sharply reduce the time, stress, and cost that dealing with unlicensed drivers requires. Officials in Utah and New Mexico, two of the five states where undocumented immigrants can legally drive, say it's working to increase public safety. But others strongly oppose it as sanctioning thousands of people who are violating federal immigration law.
Here, let me start by translating: "undocumented immigrants" = illegal aliens = people whose first act on American soil was to break her laws about coming into the country...
Three guesses what the real motivation is. And the first two guesses don't count:
"We spend an awful lot of time and effort to arrest people with no license when the state could actually make some money and put it back into law enforcement," said Carl. "For years this has been a hot topic in Massachusetts. You'd think that by now someone would have made a decision."
Bingo. It's all about the money. These fuckers will sell out our safety and security for the $50 they get per illegal license. Nice. Good to know our lords and masters have nothing but the best intentions at heart - not like they'd start handing out licenses like Tic-Tacs just to throw more money in the public coffers...
So here's my proposal: Since the rationale behind giving illegal aliens licenses is that "they're going to drive anyways", let's drop the MA gun permit entirely. Illegal aliens are "going to get firearms" anyways, so why require anyone to have a permit? Wonder how those police chiefs would feel about having their precious right to deny citizens the right to bear arms being taken away "since everyone's going to do it anyways"?
Gah.
Happy Patriot's Day indeed...
That is all.
4 comments:
It costs money to enforce the laws! Wow! Who knew. And the chiefs get paid differently? No. I don't think so.
Illegal immigrants with drivers licenses should be able to sign right up to vote! Yeah -- that's the ticket!
Jay, your proposal doesn't take into account that it's all about the money. Let's make it more consistent with the driving license for illegal immigrants - concealed carry permit for criminals.
Since criminals are going to carry concealed weapons anyway, the police can issue them permits at say $300 a pop. Let's re-do that quote: "We spend an awful lot of time and effort to arrest people with illegal guns when the state could actually make some money and put it back into law enforcement"
I wonder what "law enforcement" they actually want to do? Writing parking tickets?
That, and they may want to look into selling indulgences too.
Jay, I think that the correct analogy is "turn into a shall-issue" state. If everyone is going to get guns, then why not get some more coin flowing in from the applications?
This may be a different way of saying what you said.
I suspect what this is really about is "motor-voting". Get a license and register to vote at the same time. Any guesses which party these illegals would be supporting?
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