Thoughts on the growing drive to issue drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens…
There is nothing inherently wrong with allowing noncitizens to legally drive in the United States.
The United Nations Convention on International Road Traffic, for example, has been providing a framework for issuing International Driving Permits to world travelers ever since 1949. Without one, we Americans could not rent cars in most foreign countries, and we would be restricted to passenger trains and taxicabs overseas.
The key to that permit, of course, is that it’s issued by the driver’s home country, his country of citizenship. We Americans get one here, before we go abroad, and that is as it should be. Australians get theirs before they leave Australia; Japanese get theirs before they leave Japan. Heck, most of them wouldn’t set out on the trip until this important step had been done. And so too should Mexicans get their international driver’s licenses, while at home, before they leave Mexico.
Read more: http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2013/01/licensing-criminals-on-the-road-to-the-polling-place.html
There is nothing inherently wrong with allowing noncitizens to legally drive in the United States.
The United Nations Convention on International Road Traffic, for example, has been providing a framework for issuing International Driving Permits to world travelers ever since 1949. Without one, we Americans could not rent cars in most foreign countries, and we would be restricted to passenger trains and taxicabs overseas.
The key to that permit, of course, is that it’s issued by the driver’s home country, his country of citizenship. We Americans get one here, before we go abroad, and that is as it should be. Australians get theirs before they leave Australia; Japanese get theirs before they leave Japan. Heck, most of them wouldn’t set out on the trip until this important step had been done. And so too should Mexicans get their international driver’s licenses, while at home, before they leave Mexico.
Read more: http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2013/01/licensing-criminals-on-the-road-to-the-polling-place.html
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