Licenses For Illegals - All Is Not Lost Yet

[Ayatollahgondola]

Drivers Licenses for Illegals - A hastily revived, poorly crafted, discriminatory bill that may never see its way to implementation.

The state legislature has sunk to their usual low level during last minute posturing and dealing on closing days of legislative action for this session. A concept that has been at the heart of deep divisions between politicians and their constituency for about two decades now has once again risen from the back burner and rushed to the serving tray during a mad rush to cram a few political chef's undesirable specialties down the throats of millions of California citizens who have been ordering something completely opposite for just as long.

The dish they are serving is another warmed over version of one-bill-Gil's "drivers's license for illegals", however this one actually has an especially added ingredient repulsive to most people who favor true equality and fairness. The bill requires citizens with social security numbers to disclose them, while authorizing illegal aliens to only submit an affidavit attesting to their identity. This affidavit is doubly offensive because the authors struck out the requirement that it be signed under penalty of perjury, nor will it be required to be notarized. This bill should offend the sensibilities of all law abiding California citizens and legal residents. The legislature has created yet another special class of persons who are to be exempted from average laws. Laws that discriminate on the basis of country of origin are constitutionally suspect. This law discriminates against California residents born in this country, as they will not be able to sign their way into a drivers license without supplying their social security numbers. I'm suspicious that this may be a good reason for this law to be overturned.

[ilbegone]

How about equal protection under the law?

I think that if the law did pass and was upheld and I were to obtain an alternate driver's license with an unnotarized affidavit and a false social security number I would still be subject to a criminal charge of possession of a false ID.

Somehow the laws which exist don't seem to apply to those who are illegally present - which, of course, they definitely should