An immigration enforcement activist thinks it's a "huge mistake" for the state of California to issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens.
The Sacramento Bee recently reported that California is on the verge of allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to receive driver's licenses for the first time in nearly two decades.
The decision came about because of President Obama's controversial Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which allows amnesty to some illegal aliens brought to the country by their parents. Now The Golden State is laying the groundwork for driving privileges for the estimated 400,000 illegal aliens who qualify for that amnesty (see earlier story).
Jessica Vaughan, a former Foreign Service officer with the U.S. State Department who now serves as director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, warns that this "could be a huge mistake for national security or public safety purposes."
"There's never been a deferred action program like this where hundreds of thousands of people in the state of California are going to qualify," she notes.
And since the Obama administration has made the regulations so lax, she cautions that it will be next to impossible to verify the identities of all the people applying for this amnesty.
"We have no idea who's going to get legal status for this program, so for the state of California to then turn around and bless these people with another form of official identification is a huge mistake," Vaughan reiterates.
That is why states like Arizona, Nebraska and Mississippi have refused to do that.