Driver’s Licenses for 466,000 New Jersey Undocumented Immigrants Closer to Reality?

[rangerrebew]

October 17, 2018
Driver’s Licenses for 466,000 New Jersey Undocumented Immigrants Closer to Reality?
 

Drivers Licenses for New Jersey’s undocumented immigrants may have moved a step closer to reality.  In a September interview on NJ 101.5, New Jersey’s Senate President Steve Sweeney endorsed the idea—which was integral in advancing any legislative measure.  While Sweeney did not support any specific legislation, Nicholas Pugliese, staff writer for the Record’s Trenton Bureau, reported that the legislation at the center of the debate in Trenton is the New Jersey Safe and Responsible Driver Act. The legislation would amend the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Code to provide for driver’s licenses “for New Jersey residents who cannot prove lawful permanent residence in the United States.”

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/driver-s-licenses-for-466-000-new-98761/

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[XenaLee]

October 17, 2018
Driver’s Licenses for 466,000 New Jersey Undocumented Immigrants Closer to Reality?
 

Drivers Licenses for New Jersey’s undocumented immigrants may have moved a step closer to reality.  In a September interview on NJ 101.5, New Jersey’s Senate President Steve Sweeney endorsed the idea—which was integral in advancing any legislative measure.  While Sweeney did not support any specific legislation, Nicholas Pugliese, staff writer for the Record’s Trenton Bureau, reported that the legislation at the center of the debate in Trenton is the New Jersey Safe and Responsible Driver Act. The legislation would amend the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Code to provide for driver’s licenses “for New Jersey residents who cannot prove lawful permanent residence in the United States.”

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/driver-s-licenses-for-466-000-new-98761/

If they pass or "amend" the code to allow illegal immigrants to drive.... so much for that theory that "driving is a privilege".   Apparently any warm body, illegal or not, can drive a vehicle in the USA.  Much to the chagrin of the victims that will end up crippled, mutilated or dead as a result. 

And I speak from personal experience in that I know a co-worker who went out for lunch and had her foot severed by a Mexican illegal driver with, natch, no insurance.  It took over a year of therapy and cost her thousands of dollars.  But hey... she doesn't count in the grand scheme of things.  She was just a black female LEGAL citizen in America.

Know another person who had his brand new SUV totaled by yet another Mexican illegal driver.  Poor guy never even got the car home safely. 

I'm just wondering how many, among those thousands of "mostly males" throng/hoard.... will be victimizing legal citizen drivers, women via rape, and American citizens via robbery, murder, etc., in the future.  This entire scenario is making a mockery of Trump's wall that hasn't been built.  As designed and intended.

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This state is making it more and more difficult for me to like it.