Driver s licenses for illegals a "Georgiafornia"?

By D.A. King, Marietta Daily Journal, September 28, 2004

http://www.mdjonline.com/270/10157347.txt

MDJ columnist Bill Shipp wrote last week about the possibility of the Georgia Legislature granting driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

Sadly, Shipp is correct to note that people like myself who advocate actual enforcement of our immigration laws are regarded as "out of touch cranks." I have been called much worse for my expressions of outrage at the nearly absolute abandonment of the rule of law on which our republic was founded.

In today's America, to be labeled "anti-immigrant" and "eyed suspiciously," one has only to insist that immigration be legal.

To be regarded as an oppressed victim and then rewarded, proclaim that you crossed the barbed wire border illegally, and then demand all of the rights and privileges of citizenship.

Having carefully studied the crisis that is illegal immigration for several years, and having put aside my own business to fight the battle that our elected officials have refused to assume, I disagree with a few of the conclusions that Shipp presented.

I do not believe that the Georgia Legislature is going to grant a driver's license to the possibly one million illegals that Shipp guesses presently live in our state. I will wager Mr. Shipp a bag of grits on the matter.

While he is correct that there is a movement to arrange just such a sellout of Georgia citizen's security and devaluation of that citizen status, he is wrong to assume that the outcome will be one of acquiescence to the demands of the illegal alien lobby and the many that profit from their actions.

The "Hispandering" state Legislature in California recently passed a bill to grant its millions of illegals our national ID card - the driver's license.

But Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger courageously vetoed that dangerous legislation.

Here in Georgia, there are still responsible and patriotic Americans in our Legislature who will do the right thing as well.

While well on our way, we have not yet become "Georgiafornia."

Georgia does not "need illegals." The bizarre concept that will somehow perish as a result of enforcing our immigration laws is to ignore the America of only a generation ago.

We built this republic on the opposite concept. That "several industries depend on the low-paid labors" is quite true. It is also a federal felony.

There is no "cheap labor." That term applies only to the profit margins of the criminal "willing employers" who openly and fearlessly hire the fugitives from justice. It is the law-abiding taxpayer who trusted in his government to protect him who pays the cost of over-crowded multi-language schools for the children of the invading horde.

The correct and descriptive term is "taxpayer subsidized labor."

Tell the poor sap who is sitting in the overcrowded emergency room while he waits, surrounded by scores of Spanish-speaking, non-paying illegals, that his future is dependent on adding more of the same to his state.

The granting of a driver's license to resentful and arrogant illegal aliens in Georgia can only result in millions rushing here.

For evidence of the certain outcome of rewarding illegals, witness the bankrupt and desperate condition of the once rich and comfortable - but now Balkanized - "Mexifornia" of today.

It is not somehow un-American to demand that American laws be enforced.

It is more than a little interesting to note that in Mexico - the leading supplier of illegals to our nation - the law says that a foreign national must prove that he is in that sovereign nation legally to obtain a driver's license.

It is a law that is enforced. What a concept.

Illegal immigration is organized crime. President Bush is successfully operating an illegal labor auction and profiting from the proceeds.

The singular reason that Kerry and the Democrats are not making that fact a badly needed campaign issue is that they hope to take over the racket.

Follow the money.

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