Mother whose son was killed by an undocumented driver wants to repeal law that would allow illegal immigrants driver’s licenses
Marie Szaniszlo - Yesterday 6:54 PM
A Milford woman whose 23-year-old son was struck, dragged and killed by an undocumented drunk driver is renewing her push to repeal a state law that grants driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants in Massachusetts as her son’s killer goes before the parole board on Monday.
Maureen Maloney, chairwoman of the Fair and Secure Massachusetts committee, is trying to gather the more than 40,000 certified signatures needed by Aug. 24 to put a question on the November ballot to repeal the Work and Family Mobility Act, she told Herald columnist Howie Carr last Friday on his radio show.
That law will allow those without legal status, but with the ability to demonstrate their identity using documents from their home country, to be granted driver’s licenses beginning on July 1 of next year.
Gov. Charlie Baker vetoed the law, but the state Legislature overrode the veto last month.
Proponents of the law say that it would make roads safer because immigrants, like everyone else, would have to pass a test to get a license. Without the law, proponents say, some immigrants — like Nicolas Dutan Guaman, an undocumented immigrant from Ecuador who killed Mahoney’s son — will take their chances and drive anyway, without any training.
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