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EDITORIAL COMMENT: Media Grandstanding on Real ID in Texas

Posted November 24th, 2008 by BeatTheChip

"I've maintained for years that DPS' and Homeland Security have this one a**-backwards, they've misidentified the most significant public safety interests and instead are pandering to xenophobia. Drivers licenses are the wrong tool for enforcing immigration policy - it's not their purpose and using them that way perverts their other, more important functions. The feds, not DPS, are responsible for enforcing immigration laws, plus the agency's focus on restricting drivers licenses actually makes people less safe - particularly drivers, which is most of us, because if you can't get a drivers license you can't get liability insurance."  

- Scott Henson, GRITS FOR BREAKFAST, on  DPS declaration of a move to put Real ID inspired licenses in the hands of Texans.  

 

http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2008/11/dps-forays-into-immigration-enforcement.html 

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