Ah, The Joys Of Immigration Politics
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported today that used car dealers and private “tag” services (a “tag” in Georgia is the license plate you put on your car and/or little sticker that goes on your license plate when you pay the registration fee and ad valorum tax for the vehicle) are reporting a huge drop in business due to a new law the Legislature passed this year that won’t let you register a vehicle unless you have a Georgia Drivers License.
That means you can’t move from another state to here and register until you get a local license. It also means you can’t register a car here if you are an illegal alien. There’s a loophole, you can apply for the registration by mail and not have to give proof of a drivers license. Most illegals don’t have mailing addresses.
You can buy insurance. You can have an international or foreign license and be driving (but not living) legally in Georgia. You just can’t register your car here unless you prove you’re a legal resident of Georgia so as to get a drivers license.
The new law’s sponsor said it wasn’t directed against illegals; that was an unintended consequence of the law, which he said was intended to promote “public safety.” Huh?
The AJC reporter, being employed by the cracker jack outfit she's with, didn't ask, or at least report, what the legislator considered to be the public safety benefits of the law.
2 comments:
To promote public safety?? How is that promoting 'public safety'?
I hate when people/governments make comments like this.
I was once told by a company that 'for privacy reasons' I needed to tell them my name. Say what?!
Who's in charge there?
In this case, the truth might have been better for him politically. Thanks to "journalists" like Lou Dobbs and Glen Beck, aliens are the one class of people you can denigrate to your bigoted little heart's content without fear of reprisals.
He must have just been lying out of habit.
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