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 finding jobs and police and sheriffs' work to interdict drugs....
The battle has been joined. Next year, Oregonians should vote to repeal driver cards for illegal immigrants.
Read more about why illegal aliens should not be given driver cards.