Of course this is common sense legislation, but as we all know, Democrats lack that gift. They would rather see American business people locked up behind bars because their claim is those employers attract illegals to our country, but making them comfortable by issuing drivers licenses so they can get drunk and kill Americans is not luring them in.
Uh, Dummy. Nobody is coming here so they can drive. They are coming here for jobs.
It's estimated we have over 20 million illegals in this country. Do you think that all or most illegals have a job? People don't come here to drive, but it makes coming here much more attractive.
States issuing driver's licenses to undocumented is to our benefit, not theirs.
By reciprocity treaties, they can drive in the US under the license issued in Mexico, just like we can use a US license in Mexico.
The purpose of issuing a license to undocumented in the US is so that we can train and test them better.
And have an accurate address in case of any legal disputes.
A driver's license is not allowed to be used as an ID by any level of government, including federal.
States issuing driver's licenses has nothing to do with recognizing a valid driver's license issued by another country.
For a lot of years, I had an international drivers license that was accepted in MOST countries including the US and Mexico. I was overseas more than I was stateside. But once I came back to the US I had to get a State Issued Drivers license. It has to do with your legal residence. For instance, if you move from state to another, you have X number of days to get the states DL that you moved to. If you have someone from Mexico that is living in the US, that Mexican DL is good for X number of days and then he MUST get a license issued by the given state he resides in. Normally, one has to be here legally. I think the exception might be if the Mexican had an International DL like I had and spent time in both places.
I still hold that in order to get a State Issued Drivers License one has to be legal, have verifiable insurance, registered car, licensed car. Just like I have to do. And the State must require the Insurance Companies to notify them if you are no longer insured or that you are insured. The insurance company must be an approved company by the state. No offshore hanky panky. If you do have your insurance lapse then you won't have a current insurance card and can't reregister your vehicle or renew your license.
If you get stopped without valid insurance, they can and will run a background check. Hell, I get stopped and they still run my license so that's a form of background check. If an illegal is stopped, they can run that back ground check, find out that he's an illegal and detain him for Immigrations. Simple as that.
Same goes for housing and employment. In order to live where I live, a background check has to be done. If one is an illegal, you will fail the check and be refused here. After the huge hullabalu from Walmart, even they run background checks on new hires so don't tell me it can't be done. That 24 bucks for the Background Check is money well spent by any employer or housing facility.
And any company that is caught not doing a proper background check or "Paying under Table" to illegals needs to be shut down. Not just fined, shut down and their managers that were in on it sent to jail.
If they don't have a job, can't send their kids to public schools, have a place to live, what use is there to have a Drivers License.