BOSTON – The largest immigrant advocacy group in New England is again pushing lawmakers to support a bill that would allow foreign-born residents living in the country illegally to secure Massachusetts driver’s licenses.
Massachusetts law currently requires immigrants seeking a driver’s license to prove that they are in the country legally.
MIRA is calling on supporters to sign and share an online petition supporting the Safe Driving Bill, noting that similar laws are now in effect in Connecticut; Illinois; Maryland; Puerto Rico; California; Washington; Oregon; Nevada; Utah; Colorado; Washington, D.C. and New Mexico.
We don’t like to get political here at The Real Cape so we aren’t going to comment on whether it is right or wrong to give illegal immigrants licenses. We are however all for common sense so we will comment on how the fuck the logistics of this would work? Being an illegal immigrant is still illegal right? When two words describe something and one of the words is “illegal” I tend to lean towards there being a law broken. Am I alone on this?
So in these states where illegal aliens can get a license, and I know this may sound crazy complicated to a government agency, why don’t they just arrest them when they show up for the test? They’ve got weeks of notice. Is this not the ultimate proof of how ridiculously ass backwards our government is? What the government is telling us is that they don’t have the resources to catch illegal aliens. But! They do have the resources to catch them, give them a driving test, take their picture, let them go and then mail them a license within 10 business days? Seems legit.
I’m not even offended by the government not going after illegal aliens, I couldn’t really give a shit less. I mean everyone has an immigrant somewhere in their ancestry. What I am offended by is the government insulting our intelligence with something that makes no sense and contradicts itself. This is like if the government told us they were going to start handing out pie to jaywalkers. Look the other way if you want but don’t reward people who commit a crime. We’ve got a system going here ya know? When you just arbitrarily replace consequences with rewards it tends to screw up the entire operation. Anarchy, cats and dogs, the whole nine yards.
P.S. Anyone who doesn’t like immigrants should be forced to go to the Brazilian Grill in Hyannis, they’d change their tune real fast.
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