Thread: Little-noticed amendment turns DPS policy into law

Little-noticed amendment turns DPS policy into law
Amendment turns DPS immigrant driver's license policy into law.
By Jason Buch/jbuch@express-news.net
Published 01:17 a.m., Sunday, July 3, 2011

As the House early last month debated a must-pass finance bill, one member slipped in language that puts into law a controversial Texas Department of Public Safety policy requiring driver’s license applicants to show they’re in the country legally.

The amendment, added by Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, to the education funding bill legislators needed to balance the state budget, originally was included in SB 9, the so-called “sanctuary citiesâ€

special license for temporary visitors.

Turned sideways and labeled Temporary Visitor so at a glance, it no longer looks like the driver's license of a citizen.

The rules require Texans applying for or renewing their license to show they are citizens or are in the country legally.

All the illegals who used old visas with no expiration dates to get a DLs have lost their driving privileges.
[quote]“We’ve gotten hundreds of complaints of people getting the wrong licenses, people having to keep coming back and bringing more documents and people getting denied licenses,â€

Originally Posted by Dixie

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! I know some unprepared English speaking Americans who left DPS mad because they didn't bring the right paperwork either. Dixie

Happened to me!

Then when I tried to open linked bank accounts for my son for his first year at college similar BS happened.

Call me paranoid but I felt like they did this crap to American Citizens to pretend the process was diligent. I suspect that persons not readily identified as actual citizens weren't treated the same way.