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March 24, 2015 03:16 PM UTC
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The nativists will be back…
Didn’t the illegal license program have all the money Dems originally asked for? Cry me a river.
Because why would you want the guy driving next to you to be licensed and insured?
Public safety be damned, ideology uber alles!
What makes you think licensed illegal immigrant drivers will go out and purchase auto insurance? They didn’t before. I seriously doubt that little laminated card will inspire them to go out and spend a small fortune for it now. Considering they have no driving record, as a legally licensed driver in the U.S., I imagine their premiums would be exceptionally high.
I can’t say if they will or not, but the premise of your argument (insurance is available but goes unpurchased) is wrong.
It’s very difficult to get insurance if you don’t have a license. Most agents would just tell you, “no.” It is possible, but you have to work your way to someone who’ll talk to you, have yourself excluded as driver (why pay for a policy that won’t pay for your accidents?), and convince them someone else (probably named, probably related or an employee) will be driving you.
Civics, it’s not possible to get a driver’s license without showing proof of insurance. Apparently, it’s been some time since you had to renew, but that has been Colorado law forever.
And no, non-citizens can’t register to vote when they get a “red license”, i.e., one for undocumented drivers.
I guess that doesn’t get covered until 102?
Of course, I’m happy to be proven wrong, but I don’t believe that’s true. Proof of insurance is required to register a car, but I believe that the only insurance requirement around licenses is that the vehicle used for a driving test be insured. I could let someone borrow my car to take the test and I believe that would qualify.
Also, although I don’t know how this works for undocumented folks, I never took a driving test here because I had a license from another state. I don’t know if, for example, a CA license issued to someone undocumented would convert over along the same path.
Actually, no, the Dems did NOT get everything they asked for. The original request from DMV was for $166,000 to operate five offices, in addition to the one in Denver, and to convert 13 temporary employees to permanent to handle the backlog.
What was approved was enough money to open four offices and for 7.5 permanent employees.
Of course, if you’d actually read the AP story, Moddy, you would have seen that.
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