Thread: Court says New York can deny licenses to Illegal Immigrants

New York can deny licenses to illegal immigrants, court says

July 9, 2006

BY SAMUEL MAULL




NEW YORK -- New York's Department of Motor Vehicles can require immigrants to prove they are in this country legally before allowing them to have driver's licenses, a state appeals court ruled.

The 5-0 ruling Thursday by the Appellate Division in Manhattan reversed a decision by Justice Karen Smith, who ordered the DMV last year to stop denying driver's licenses to immigrants who didn't have Social Security numbers or proof they were legal.

In dismissing the illegal immigrants' complaint, the appeals court said Smith had erred in barring the identity procedures DMV Commissioner Raymond Martinez put in place and said they were ''within his authority and enforceable.''

300,000 could be affected



The court noted cases in which one Social Security number was used to get licenses for 57 people and another in which one taxi driver used two numbers to get two licenses -- one for insurance and the other for traffic tickets.

Foster Maer, a lawyer for the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, which represented the plaintiffs, said his group was considering an appeal.

The DMV began lifting the licenses of illegal immigrants in 2004, a move that advocates said would cost as many as 300,000 people their driving privileges.

The plaintiffs in the case had argued that their constitutional rights were being violated.






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The plaintiffs in the case had argued that their constitutional rights were being violated.

What constitutional rights? Illegal immigrants have no constitutional rights in the country.

I'm so glad the common sense ruled the day in New York!

Now to get the other 14 states that still allow this nonsense to go on!!

Another fine example of their arrogance.

"Constitutional rights"...

Give a mouse a cookie, and they will want not only the rest of the bag of cookies, but the entire gallon of milk as well.

How dare illegal immigrants hide behind the Constitution!!!

MW hit it on the money.

What constitutional rights? Illegal immigrants have no constitutional rights in the country.

Anyone in a state that is issuing DLs to their illegals should be writing their transportation department, governor and state legislators right now and pointing this article out to them.

Dixie

Originally Posted by MW

The plaintiffs in the case had argued that their constitutional rights were being violated.

What constitutional rights? Illegal immigrants have no constitutional rights in the country.

Gosh, I guess that I missed that amendment that guaranteed a right to a drivers license. Don't those idiots know that, by definition, anything subject to licensure is a privilege and not a right?