On the heels of Ohio’s requirement for evidence of birth or legal status in the U.S. in order to get a drivers’ license the State of Florida is moving to implement similar requirements. In a story headlined “Getting a Florida driver’s license is about to get more complicated” the St. Petersburg Times reports that applicants for a Florida license will be required to submit a birth certificate, social security card, divorce papers or other evidence of legal status such as a valid passport.
The St. Petersburg Times says the drivers’ license change in Florida is the result of a federal law enacted by Congress following the 9-11 attack because drivers’ licenses have been too easy to get. This federal law is known as Real ID.
The media is reporting growing evidence that the underwear bomber’s Visa to the U.S. should have been revoked, but in another case within the U.S. government of the right hand not talking to the left hand that action was not taken. This even though he was on a watch list, officials in Britain revoked his Visa and this fellow’s father had warned U.S. officials that his son had embarked on some kind of jihad mission.
In yet another example of immigration conflict comes an announcement that 3 college professors are developing a cell phone that will provide GPS coordinates for people to find water caches in the desert along the Mexican border in order to help illegal immigrants find water, according to an AP story. But, Peter Nunez, a U.S. Attorney who now teaches immigration law at the University of San Diego that distributing such devices could be a crime because it is intended to help people break the law by sneaking across the border.
Let’s see now. The federal government is requiring states to tighten up on drivers’ license requirements; it is failing to cancel a Visa of a fellow most everyone seemed to know was hell-bent to engage in some kind of terrorism directed at the U.S.; and some people are trying to help people trek across our southern border by assuring they can find water in order to survive even though such action may itself be illegal. Let’s just hope those desert trackers don’t have anything nasty in their underwear.
And, don’t fortget – the same federal government that cannot seem to communicate internally about terrorism and visas is the same federal government we seem so eager to give control over our health insurance coverage.
The problem is not drivers licenses, it’s Visas. If I’m not mistaken, the State Department issues those. How was that Nigerian guy able to get a Visa to enter the US while being on a watch list? The 911 guys were also here on Visas.
They won’t legalize a hardworking Latino immigrants who are economic refugees trying to survive, but they will issue a Visa to a terrorist from Africa. Unbelievable.
You are right on Sunny. Politicians are not about solutions they are about politics.
we need to legalize the mexiccans so they can get free health insurance pronto
Outstanding bigotry:
“we need to legalize the mexiccans so they can get free health insurance pronto”
Rampant population growth threatens our economy and quality of life. Immigration, both legal and illegal, are fueling this growth. I’m not talking about environmental degradation or resource depletion. I’m talking about the effect upon rising unemployment and poverty in America.
I should introduce myself. I am the author of a book titled “Five Short Blasts: A New Economic Theory Exposes The Fatal Flaw in Globalization and Its Consequences for America.” To make a long story short, my theory is that, as population density rises beyond some optimum level, per capita consumption of products begins to decline out of the need to conserve space. People who live in crowded conditions simply don’t have enough space to use and store many products. This declining per capita consumption, in the face of rising productivity (per capita output, which always rises), inevitably yields rising unemployment and poverty.
This theory has huge implications for U.S. policy toward population management, especially immigration policy. Our policies of encouraging high rates of immigration are rooted in the belief of economists that population growth is a good thing, fueling economic growth. Through most of human history, the interests of the common good and business (corporations) were both well-served by continuing population growth. For the common good, we needed more workers to man our factories, producing the goods needed for a high standard of living. This population growth translated into sales volume growth for corporations. Both were happy.
But, once an optimum population density is breached, their interests diverge. It is in the best interest of the common good to stabilize the population, avoiding an erosion of our quality of life through high unemployment and poverty. However, it is still in the interest of corporations to fuel population growth because, even though per capita consumption goes into decline, total consumption still increases. We now find ourselves in the position of having corporations and economists influencing public policy in a direction that is not in the best interest of the common good.
The U.N. ranks the U.S. with eight third world countries – India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Uganda, Ethiopia and China – as accounting for fully half of the world’s population growth by 2050. It’s absolutely imperative that our population be stabilized, and that’s impossible without dramatically reining in immigration, both legal and illegal.
If you’re interested in learning more about this important new economic theory, I invite you to visit my web site at http://PeteMurphy.wordpress.com.
Pete Murphy
Author, “Five Short Blasts”
Mr. Murphy,
You are spot on. I wish people could have just a tich of your common sense logic!
I am look forward to reading your book!