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To: calgal who wrote (1387)	9/7/2003 2:05:17 AM
From: calgal	of 1604

URL:http://www.nationalreview.com/frum/diary090503.asp SEP. 5, 2003: ARNOLD AND IMMIGRATION Arnold Schwarzenegger, for better or for worse the front-running Republican candidate for Governor of California, has come under some fire for his opposition to drivers’ licenses for illegal immigrants. The classic answer to questions about illegal immigration was offered by the late Sony Bono in his first race for Congress: “What can I say? It’s illegal?” But drivers’ licenses for illegals raise a broader issue. The license is in effect America’s national ID card. It’s the document that proves your identity just about everywhere, from the jetway of an airplane to the entrance to Congress. As it is, it’s a document that is almost absurdly easy to manipulate: the 9/11 hijackers, for example, carried Virginia licenses because Virginia required no proof of residency at all – all you had to do was bring a friend to the DMV who would attest that your application was true. A California state legislator named Gil Cedillo has proposed loosening these standards even further. Under his bill, an illegal immigrant could get a driver’s license if he possessed a federal taxpayer ID number. Since the feds require no proof that your name really is your name before giving you a taxpayer ID, the effect of the Cedillo bill would be to permit the 2 million estimated driving-age illegals in California to receive authentic identification under any name they chose. It would be hard to invent a better terrorist-protection program. Arnold is 100% right on the drivers’ licenses question. And he – and Arianna Huffington, in her previous incarnation! – were right about Proposition 187: the law denying welfare benefits to illegal immigrants. It’s hard even to begin to imagine what the case for welfare benefits for illegals would be. If California liberalism has reached the point where it is considered harsh and insensitive to suggest that America’s supremely generous and welcoming immigration laws actual be enforced – then may I suggest that California liberalism has lost its marbles?

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