A question for supporters of driver cards for illegal immigrants: Would you rather live where there are no immigration laws, no national boundaries....
This country is attractive to immigrants because of our relative prosperity and stable, peaceful society...
...illegal immigration....It contributes to a culture of corruption that undermines our democracy.
Vote “no” to giving official driver cards to illegal immigrants. Read the entire letter.
Letter writer Marvin Thiessen resorts to emotional name-calling, labeling those who support the ballot initiative repealing driver cards for illegal immigrants as hysterical xenophobic zealots.
Supporters of this repeal initiative believe that a driver’s license is intended for law-abiding legal citizens...
...I am covered for damage caused by uninsured and unlicensed motorists, citizen or not. If I were in an accident, I would rather it be with a legal citizen.
James Angus
Milwaukie
Read the entire letter.
Hundreds of new laws passed by the Oregon Legislature on driving, teen tanning, animals and other issues go into effect Jan. 1, 2014. Here’s a roundup of some of those new laws...
...one new law that is not going into effect as scheduled Jan. 1:
Driver cards: The new law would have allowed Oregonians who can’t prove their legal presence to obtain four-year driving privileges. Opponents gathered enough signatures to refer the issue to voters on the November 2014 ballot. DMV subsequently suspended implementation of the program.
Phil Carrasco believes giving driver’s licenses to immigrants is a human rights issue (Dec. 7). What part of illegal doesn’t he understand? Even if his points have economic validity, what’s missing is his understanding of what’s a right and what’s a privilege.
A driver’s license is not a right, it’s a privilege. If it were a right the state wouldn’t be able to deny it to those who lose their driver’s license because of DUII convictions or failure to pay child support — those groups also need to support their families.
If one group is allowed to break the law it stands to...
In considering the question, should illegal aliens be given official driver cards by the state government, advocates are trying to channel discussion primarily to matters of traffic or road safety. However, road safety is a phony issue. It’s a screen to hide the real issue, which is the hiring of illegal labor.
Illegal hiring is profitable to employers because they can pay substandard wages and pass on to the public the costs of providing subsidized housing, subsidized medical care, subsidized schooling and other services that would be unnecessary if adequate wages were paid and...
After reading the Nov. 15 point / counter-point opinion pieces in the News-Register titled “Should Oregon offer driver cards to undocumented immigrants?” it appears to me Oregonians may need a short history lesson on undocumented driving in the state.
Senate Bill 833, passed by the Oregon Legislature and signed into law on May 1 by Gov. John Kitzhaber, will undermine Senate Bill 1080, legislation passed in 2008 that requires legal presence in the state to obtain an Oregon driver’s license.
Ever since the passage of SB 1080, the Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles has been...
Senate Bill 833 would grant official driver privilege cards to illegal aliens.
The referendum to overturn this law was mobilized by Oregonians for Immigration Reform and the Protect Oregon Driver Licenses (PODL) Committee. On Oct. 18, the Elections Division of the Secretary of State’s office announced that the referendum qualified and would be placed on the November 2014 ballot.
Earlier this year, Gov. John Kitzhaber gave a speech on the steps of the state Capitol announcing he was forming "a diverse...
Senate Bill 833, passed by the Oregon Legislature and signed into law on May 1 by Gov. John Kitzhaber, will undermine Senate Bill 1080, legislation passed in 2008 that requires legal presence in the state to obtain an Oregon driver’s license....
In a report filed on Jan. 1, DMV Administrator Tom McClellan imparts: "Four years after implementing a legal presence requirement in Oregon, changes in driver licensing requirements have not had a major impact on the rate of unlicensed and uninsured driving."
Translation, there is no current documentation available since the passage...
Senate Bill 833, passed by the Oregon Legislature and signed into law on May 1 by Gov. John Kitzhaber, will undermine Senate Bill 1080, legislation passed in 2008 that requires legal presence in the state to obtain an Oregon driver’s license.
There was no justification for the Legislature and governor to make SB 833 state law this year allowing those without documentation to obtain access to a pseudo-driver’s license — called a driver card.
Looking back to 2012, when opponents to the issuance of driver’s licenses to the undocumented found out about proposed legislation that...
Last week, culminating five months of effort by hundreds of volunteers, the group Protect Oregon Driver Licenses presented more than 70,000 voters' signatures to the secretary of state's office. What those signatures will do: assure a place on next year's ballot for a referendum measure to repeal Senate Bill 833, the state law passed in May that grants "driver cards" to illegal immigrants.
I am one of the referendum's chief sponsors. Why did my compatriots and I undertake this effort? Because SB833 undercuts federal efforts to regulate immigration, unemployed Oregonians' hopes of...
