Illinois may grant driver's licenses to illegal immigrants
By Mary Wisniewski, 11/20/1012
"(Reuters) - Illinois may soon become the most populous U.S. state to grant a form of driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, after the nation's growing Hispanic population boosted the power of Democrats in national and state elections on November 6.
"A bipartisan group of Illinois politicians announced on Tuesday they would propose such a law when the legislature convenes on November 27.
"Washington state and New Mexico are the only states that currently allow illegal immigrants to get licenses. Utah allows driving permits. As the fifth most populous state, Illinois would be the biggest state to adopt such a law. ...
"'When you have a quarter of a million undocumented drivers on the road, it's definitely a safety concern,' said Ron Holmes, spokesman for Illinois Senate President John Cullerton, who is backing the measure along with fellow Democrats Illinois Governor Pat Quinn and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
"Former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar, a popular Republican, joined Democrats at a news conference in Chicago Tuesday to support the idea, as did Republican State Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka. It also has the support of the powerful House Speaker, Chicago Democrat Michael Madigan, giving it a good chance of passage.
"The drive to pass the law follows the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama, Democratic gains in the U.S. Senate and in the Illinois legislature with strong Hispanic support. ..."
Yet more evidence that the GOP is committing suicide as a conservative party and needs to be put out of its misery as soon as humanely possible. Obviously this is not just a matter of a change of heart, but an excuse to aggressively march forward as part of the last stages of a long campaign on the part of a determined minority of Republican Party "leaders" and strategists, in alliance with liberal Democrats, to keep our borders open as wide as possible, ushering in a massive never-ending influx of docile cheap-laborers, and to dissolve Western civilization in favor of an Orwellian utopian super-rich/shantytown globalism.
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