On Jan. 1, a number of laws took effect that the Oregon Legislature passed in 2013. Thanks to the signatures of 58,000-plus Oregonians, however, the law granting driver cards to illegal immigrants was suspended and referred to the November 2014 ballot....
The nexus between illegal-immigrant driver cards and unemployed Oregonians? Simple: Were not illegal immigrants taking Oregon jobs, many of those Oregonians may not have been unemployed in the first place. And if driver cards take effect, even more Oregonians are likely to be....
The Oregonian has styled driver cards a matter of "personal freedom" for illegal immigrants. But Oregonians should commit to a different freedom: that of their economically vulnerable fellow citizens to find work without having to compete with people who have broken into our nation. To that end, in November they should reject illegal-immigrant driver cards.