Illegal Immigrant Rights?

In reference to a post by Tina Johnson on her blog titled Devils Thrive on the Tribe that is Mute.

Illegal immigrants having rights? Wouldn’t that only include a guarantee at applying to becoming a citizen otherwise a free trip back to their home country?
How in the world could anyone rationalize that by giving illegal immigrants a driver’s license is going to get them to pay the same costs? Do they not understand that they don’t decide to not have insurance because they can’t, they don’t because it cost money. The standard of living for most illegal immigrants doesn’t budget the amount needed for things like registration or insurance or safety inspections, rather most are just trying to get by. Besides, if they applied for a driver’s license, wouldn’t that make them an easy target to be found?

That brings up a whole other topic, funny enough, that it actually wouldn’t make them more discoverable because our government knows exactly where they are! Yet, we don’t do much about it. Now don’t get me wrong, I think everyone deserves a fair chance to be a citizen but when someone doesn’t bother to learn our language, do you think there are very educated on our street laws, particularly those regarding safety? Te subject doesn’t really give me warm fuzzies when I contemplate this subject as I load my small children into the car for a local trip.

Futhermore, this is in no way an attack on illegal immigrants whatsoever! I have good friends that are not exactly citizens but you wouldn’t know it unless they told you. They can communicate efficiently, they have a driver’s license, they carry full coverage insurance and they even pay taxes.

Now those that go to our colleges, that’s another fun one. Most do not realize that when you “pay for college” and your total is say $2,000.00 a semester, your real total is anywhere between two to three times that depending on the school, which is subsidized by the government. Now when an illegal goes to one of our schools, even if they don’t take advantage of grants r scholarships, they are still using up funding for the rest of us.

Now I have gone off on a tangent but again, to those that feel that giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants will solve our higher insurance rates – you are sadly mistaken. This will only make them harder to distinguish from true citizens. Now the new technology that links insurance coverage with your plates – that is going to make a huge difference!