About half a million Californians have applied for a driver’s license under Assembly Bill 60 since its enforcement on Jan. 2, doubling the projection of the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
The bill, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law in 2013, allows any California resident to apply for a driver’s license regardless of immigration status. According to advocacy group Drive California, all immigrants were able to obtain a driver's license in the state until 1994, when that right was revoked. That led to tickets, arrests, and deportations.
"The interest in this program is far greater than anybody anticipated," DMV Spokesman Jaime Garza told KPCC. "We projected receiving about a half million applications by July of this year, but we've already reached that level."
To prepare for the demand, the department hired 900 additional employees and added office hours, including on Saturdays.
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5 comments:
Now round them up and ship them off to Kenya!!
This issue understandably generates negative reactions, but let's think this through. It is a safety issue. These people will drive regardless, so let's make sure they are trained and tested. We are all safer.
Also, now they are DOCUMENTED!
On the other hand, it would make a dent in their water shortage if these people were removed from the equation...
And now they can vote.. Democrat.
9:13....you are officially nominated for being the most confused and brainwashed person here today.
I thought it through, too. I just kept getting stuck on the "criminal" part.
You know, as in "the very FIRST THING they did was to break our law as if didn't really matter too much to them".
AMERICAN citizens are in PRISON in this country for doing a lot less than many of these poor, deprived ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
So we give them licenses, again, at our expense, which then allows them legitimacy.
Eligible for welfare, free housing, medical care (and THAT is BIG!), SSI benefits, disability payments, free education.
The problem, which you seem to have not thought through, is that this stuff isn't really "free", is it?
Um, who's paying for it? Us.
Keep. Cheering.
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