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Fri, Dec 12 2003
Some Guests Still Demand Rights, Not Privileges
If illegal aliens can't get to work with a legal driver's license, why do some feel the answer is to give them one anyway? Why can't they take a bus or hitch a ride with a co-worker the way physically challenged people must do? Why can't they get a license in their original country? I would be for translating that license into a license here (if they are here legally), but not just handing out state driver's licenses to them because they whine. Did someone forget that these folks are here illegally? I think the critical word in this article is "criminal". And how about the term "shacking up"?
Now some folks want to extend voting privileges to legal aliens
What's left to claim as a right if you're a law-abiding, legal citizen? If this is such a wonderful country to live in (and I believe it is), why not make the loyalty ring true by applying for full citizenship (or at least legal status)? I understand that these folks have made a tremendous impact on our economy, but that should not mean they have carte blanche to have whatever rights they demand. Our courts are clogged now with corporate embezzlers, inside traders and thieving criminals who thought the same way. Shall we throw out the rules for them too? I will be amazed if upstanding immigrants in this country are really in the majority on supporting driver's licenses and voting privileges like this.
posted at: 08:44 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
If illegal aliens can't get to work with a legal driver's license, why do some feel the answer is to give them one anyway? Why can't they take a bus or hitch a ride with a co-worker the way physically challenged people must do? Why can't they get a license in their original country? I would be for translating that license into a license here (if they are here legally), but not just handing out state driver's licenses to them because they whine. Did someone forget that these folks are here illegally? I think the critical word in this article is "criminal". And how about the term "shacking up"?
Now some folks want to extend voting privileges to legal aliens
What's left to claim as a right if you're a law-abiding, legal citizen? If this is such a wonderful country to live in (and I believe it is), why not make the loyalty ring true by applying for full citizenship (or at least legal status)? I understand that these folks have made a tremendous impact on our economy, but that should not mean they have carte blanche to have whatever rights they demand. Our courts are clogged now with corporate embezzlers, inside traders and thieving criminals who thought the same way. Shall we throw out the rules for them too? I will be amazed if upstanding immigrants in this country are really in the majority on supporting driver's licenses and voting privileges like this.
posted at: 08:44 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
