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Originally posted by NotFromHere
Here's the point. IF you think that illegals are NOT driving because they don't have a license, you're smoking crack. At least, this way, they will have a license and hopefully, insurance.
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They will also have an officially issued ID from an American governmental body. Last time I crossed the US border by car, my license was still sufficient to establish legal US residency with the INS/customs. It would also enable holders to move pretty freely to any other US state and trade in their CA drivers license for a license from any other state, given that "reciprocity" thing.
Unless the suggestion is that the DMV would issue licenses emblazoned "ILLEGAL" on them, or keep records of the names and addresses of illegal residents. Without doing anything about it.
I think the US immigration policy is monumentally screwed up and misconceived, but it is no improvement for the states to try unilaterally to change it or fix it, circumvent it or ignore it. I know that they have to do this anyway, since the INS can't manage to get it's head out of its ass to administer its own rules, but I don't see encouraging it or acquiescing in it.
