Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Immigration - Gov. Spitzer in New York State
I can't understand why so many politicians are in such a hurry to seemingly weaken our ability to track illegals...
Tom Precious writes at BuffaloNews.com:
"The Spitzer administration three weeks ago quietly eliminated the state policy that required the special identification stamp on the driver’s licenses for noncitizens who are legally, though temporarily, residing in the United States. The policy change also eliminated the accompanying expiration date that was intended to show when the person’s legal right to be in the United States ended — raising the chance that a valuable form of identification could remain in the hands of people who want to remain in the country illegally. This recent decision to stop labeling licenses of noncitizens comes as the governor is also pressing ahead with a companion policy in which the state would permit immigrants here illegally to obtain driver’s licenses. Opponents of Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer’s latest move say it sends a signal that New York does not care whether individuals are within its borders illegally. They point out that three of the terrorist hijackers on 9/11 had expired visas and that driver’s licenses were among the forms of identification they possessed to carry out their plot. 'There are more holes in this plan than Swiss cheese,' said Wayne F. Jagow, the Niagara County clerk, whose office processes driver’s license applications for the state Department of Motor Vehicles."
