Sheriff Supports Bill to Grant Undocumented Immigrants Driver's Licenses
Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran Jr. joins a coalition along with other sheriffs to push bill through General Assembly.
Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran Jr. is backing a bill requiring all Illinois drivers be licensed and insured including undocumented immigrants. Curran joined with the Highway Safety Coalition Tuesday in a press conference Tuesday calling on the Illinois General Assembly to “have courage and put highway safety first by passing legislation in veto session 2012 to require all Illinois drivers to be licensed and insured.” “There are a lot of undocumented immigrants that need to get to work and by virtue of the way the system is set up, by having to have a social security number, are not eligible to get a driver’s license,” Curran said. “By making sure they get licenses, we can ensure that they are going through a process (to learn) the Rules …
Raz
2:26 am on Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Are you kidding me??? What about ILLEGAL is misunderstood? My parents had to take medical exams to enter this country, many years ago. Do they still require that? Guess it doesn't matter if being an ILLEGAL means nothing now! I can agree to disagree with anyone but, in this case, this is wrong! Period! more ›