Question:
Mexican Consul Bitches U.S. Requiring Citizenship or Immigration
Service Document?
Answer:
Driver's license rule hampering immigrants
Indiana is requiring Social Security card, which thousands don't have,
can't get
Thousands of immigrants in Indiana could find it harder to get their
driver's licenses because of tough new identification requirements
imposed late last year by the state.
ACCEPTABLE ID
Here are some of the documents the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles
will accept for a license in addition to a Social Security number:
· United States birth certificate.
· Valid U.S. military/Merchant Marine photo ID.
· A valid U.S. passport.
· Acceptable INS documents that can be used as primary documents
include:
· A valid foreign passport.
· A valid employment authorization card, I-94 stamped with Section
207 or Section 208.
Note: Out-of-country licenses are no longer accepted as identification
or proof of driving experience except in the case of tourists, who can
use them for up to a year.
Source: Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Some fear the new standards, which took effect Nov. 10, could force
many immigrants to drive without licenses and thus without insurance,
potentially making Indiana a more dangerous and expensive place to
drive.
"We believe that restricting individuals from obtaining a driver's
license will cause major problems in the streets of Indiana," said Leo
Tamez, president of the Association of Mexican Leaders in Action based
in Indianapolis. He wrote a letter to Gov. Mitch Daniels protesting the
new rules late last year. "They are going to have to get to work, and
restricting them from driving makes it worse."
Bureau of Motor Vehicles officials say they implemented state rules to
comply with the federal Real ID Act passed last year by Congress, which
will take effect in 2008. The law demands that states increase the
documentation they require for such things as driver's licenses to
improve homeland security.
Citizens from those states that don't meet standards could find their
licenses aren't accepted as proof of identification to board airplanes
or enter federal buildings.
Mexican Consul Sergio Aguilera, based in Indianapolis, said this week
that about 100,000 people in Indiana could be affected by the change.
The heart of the problem seems to involve the bureau's revised policy
on Social Security cards. A valid Social Security card is mandatory to
receive a driver's license.
Immigrants cannot obtain Social Security cards; only people who become
U.S. citizens may get one.
To get a driver's license, all noncitizens must go through what the BMV
calls a central verification process on the state level, and then
federal Homeland Security also verifies the person's identity,
according to Greg Cook, a spokesman for BMV. The process, which is
initiated at the branches, can take weeks.
"If an individual does not have access to the Social Security card,
they have to provide a citizenship and immigration service document --
for example, a passport, to obtain a license," Cook said.
The leaders of immigrant groups say that requirement is not widely
known, and they fear some legal residents in Indiana will be
intimidated at the branch or be unwilling to wait and decide just to go
without a license.
In November, members of the Latinocommunity met at George Washington
High School in Indianapolis, concerned that under the new policy, they
would no longer be able to obtain a valid driver's license.
Organizers expected fewer than 100 people, but almost 1,000 concerned
Latinos attended, said Anna Hail, a longtime community activist.
Hail said those most affected are illegal immigrants and legal
immigrants (who are not U.S. citizens) who need cars to get to and from
work. She said the lack of adequate public transportation forces many
to drive unlicensed, which in turn means uninsured drivers on the road.
A license is required to obtain insurance.
"The reality is that we have to find a way for these people to get to
work with their license and to have insurance," said Hail. "They said
they knew they were breaking the law, and they don't want to break the
law."
Rep. John Aguilera, D-East Chicago, has introduced a measure, House
Bill 1357, that would require the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to issue a
driver's certificate to an individual who is qualified to drive a
vehicle but cannot provide proof of residency status. Two states have
passed such a measure, Tennessee and Utah.
It's not clear how far the proposal will go in the
Republican-controlled House and Senate.
Amy Mendoza, executive director of the Indiana Commission on
Hispanic/Latino Affairs, did not return calls seeking comment. A
spokesman for the governor couldn't be reached.
This rationale is the same lame one that the pro-Illegal-immigrunt
crowd ALWAYS uses.
Where is THEIR proof that someone who INTENTIONALLY broke
our laws to get here, MIRACULOUSLY becomes law-abiding
and purchases insurance according to State LAW?
I doubt that "Jose", who only came here to work and "feed
his family" back in Pileacaca, gives a damn if and when he
wrecks some gringo's life with a car. Insurance would be
an added expense that would take money away from his family.
"Jose" only wants a license to get the "good stuff" not
to be LEGAL to drive. Being LEGAL is not an "Jose" trait.
Even in Mexico few people who drive have drivers licenses and, licensed
or not, fewer have insurance.
It is not merely the very real adversion to ever spend any money:
Insurance companies in Mexico are just as corrupt as the rest of the
country. For individuals to give them money would be the equivelent of
throwing the money away.
Thing is asshole "jose" did INTENTIONALLY break the law if he is in the
USA illegally. Americans do not owe "Jose" the good life as long as he
has come here illegally. ..and we are actually getting sick of "Jose"
not giving a damn if he wrecks a gringo's life, or about him having his
old lady squirt out baby after baby so that the "family can hook up to
the welfare train. "
I hope it gets so damn tuff for "Jose" that if "Jose" even farts in
America that he would get him arrested and deported for air pollution.
I protested Wshington High School in Indianapolis....and by God we are
going to get Mitch Daniels back on track for what is in the best
interest of the Indiana tax payers....or he's out of there next election
time. I also wrote Washington High School a letter..
We got Washington High school stopped from being a meeting place for
illegal activity.
In other words...if "Jose" wants a driver's license, let "Jose" come
here legally, follow the laws as required, have some respect for us and
our lives, and heck I'll be standing there to help him, and return the
same respect.
Piss on the mexican consul, and the rest of the idiot
beaners that have some screwed up idea that they can
run loose in our country.
If the dam government does not put a stop to the
illegal foreign national alien criminals soon,
We the people will take the task in OUR hands,
and the dam mexicaneers and their supporters
in he US are going to not like what will happen, one bit.
Put the military on the border, with orders to stop
( permanently ) any dam thing attempting to cross
into the US. by what ever means required, artillery,
napalm, or radioactive waste dumped along the border
to create glowing chilly beans.
The only good illegal foreign national alien criminal,
Has assumed room temp, and will now be food for daisies..
And the same applies to the scum bag US politicians
who support illegal foreign national alien criminals,
and we got lots of them shit heads.
The frapping government puts the message out to the
border patrol, brace for violence, since the bad guys don't
seem to like your additional enforcement.
Cute, why not deploy the 1st Cav to the border,
the Seabees, and the Marines, and make dam sure not
one hair on one US citizen is bothered by some scum bag
mexicaneer criminal.
Shoot the whole frapping bunch of the scumbags
attempting to cross in either direction.
Pile up the corpses to make a wall of rotting mexicaneer
criminals. to give the next scumbag an idea of its future.
