NY Driver Licenses For Illegals. Get 'Em While They’re Hot.
When you stand in line next year at the DMV clutching your birth certificate, passport, utility bill, Social Security card and a urine sample to get your REAL ID you can thank the boobs in New York and like-minded states for your trouble.
On Monday, the Empire State’s Green Light Law went into effect allowing illegal immigrants to obtain New York driver licenses. In case you missed it, thousands of illegals - many hiding their faces when cameras passed by - were lined up to get the licenses, courtesy of the boneheaded munificence of Democrats in Albany, eager to get them on the voter rolls as soon as possible.
Where are ICE agents when you need them?
If you read the justification for this permissive law from politicians, it went something like this: Even if you’re here illegally, you’re still a New Yorker and you deserve a driver license. Now you’ll be able to cash checks without a hassle. Yippee!
Sorry, but if you’re here illegally you should be unceremoniously deported. Not rewarded with official papers.
Driver licenses are what are known as “breeder documents.” Once you have one of these, it becomes easier to obtain other documents. Plus, in some states with motor-voter laws, you’re automatically registered to vote.
New York officials say illegals won’t be registered to vote through DMV.
Anyone believe them?
The potential problems with giving illegal driver licenses are enormous, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
Here are just three scenarios the CIS offers predicting what may - and likely will - happen as a result of this law:
Scenario 1. Abel Bravo-Cortez is a Mexican national and lawful permanent resident of the United States, who resides in Queens, N.Y. Abel had a valid N.Y. license under the name Abel B. Cortez, but it was suspended due to multiple, serious traffic violations. Abel obtains a valid Mexican consular ID by showing his Mexican birth certificate. He insists that his consular ID be issued in his full name, Abel Bravo-Cortez. Abel then applies for a Green-Light license with the slight name variation and uses a relative's address in Albany. He provides an affidavit that he does not have a Social Security number. Abel is back on the road.
Scenario 2. Carlos Fuentes-Diaz is a Mexican national living illegally in the United States. Carlos has a criminal record and is wanted by authorities in Arizona. Now living in New York City, Carlos asks a friend still residing in Mexico to lend him his birth certificate (or buys a stolen Mexican birth certificate). Carlos goes to the nearest Mexican consulate and obtains a consular ID under the name on the birth certificate, Marco Hernandez-Gomez. Carlos then obtains a N.Y. license in the Hernandez name. Carlos now has a false ID to rent an apartment and to hide behind if stopped by the police.
Scenario 3. An unnamed man with an unknown date of birth and of unknown nationality is determined to obtain a false identity. He works with a document counterfeiter. The counterfeiter manufactures a Mexican consular ID for $400. The man assumes the name Marcos Gonzalez-Morales. Even though the document is counterfeit and its quality mediocre, the clerk at the DMV feels compelled to issue a Green-Light license based on it. The clerk doesn't have the skills or the training to declare it fraudulent, nor the ability to check its authenticity through a database or liaison with the Mexican government. "Marcos" uses his new identity to establish credit and open a bank account. He helps launder drug proceeds and rents vehicles to transport narcotics. In another scenario, the new "Marcos" rents vehicles and a safe house for a cell of terrorists.
You think these are far-fetched? You haven’t been paying attention.
At last count, 15 states and the District of Columbia issue driver’s licenses to anyone with a pulse and no Social Security number. New Jersey foolishly passed a Green Light Law this week.
Remember, seven of the 19 hijackers on September 11th were in possession of Virginia DMV ID cards, which allowed them to board flights and “move about the country freely” according to The Los Angeles Times. After the attacks, the Old Dominion tightened its restrictions, not only because of the 9/11 terrorism but because of rampant fraud.
How quickly we forget.
