>A New York State judge is doing his best to undermine national security by prohibiting the DMV's imposition of a requirement that noncitizens provide satisfactory immigration documents before they could renew driver's licenses, and the suspension of up to 300,000 licenses without further notice.
The State filed an appeal which should cancel the temporary restraining order that the judge imposed.
Identification is an individual's ticket to entry into buildings, airlines, and financial accounts. Drivers licenses are a primary form of identification, and if individuals who are not citizens are able to obtain licenses without having to show proper forms, anyone can potentially obtain the licenses. While most of these individuals do not have sinister intentions upon receipt of the license, terrorists can and have exploited this flaw in the identification process.
A drivers license is a privilege, not a right - so requiring proper identification is not an extraordinary demand on the individual.
This problem partially stems from the failure to secure borders and allow illegal immigrants to stay in this country. Illegal immigrants are lawbreakers - their very entry into this country, or overstaying visa time limits, makes their very presence illegal and should subject the individual to deportation. This process falls to the states because the federal government does an inadequate job. States are forced to deal with illegal immigrants seeking drivers' licenses and other official documentation because of systemic failures in the system.
And no one in the federal government seems to think this is a problem.
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