Thread: IMMIGRANTS AND WHAT IS GOOD FOR SOCIETY

Immigrants and what's good for society

By Tomas R. Jiménez
December 7, 2007

There's a rule that politicians are reminded of: “do no harm.â€

IT'S THE VOTE, Professor! And that is citizenship.

Jiménez is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California San Diego and a Fellow at the New America Foundation

This is the complete explanation for why the paper was written and for what the paper advocates.

Sociology professor

They say giving them licenses is a matter of public safety. They say it is because they will then have to learn to drive correctly.

Now this presumes some things. It presumes the illegals are not of good enough character to want to learn to drive safely and protect others on the road - and it presumes they can't possibly learn how to drive other than from some hired instructor.

If they were all such wonderful, kind, generous, caring, law abiding, high moral character, with family values oozing from every pore - wouldn't they take it upon themselves to learn to drive correctly and safely before they made a killing machine of themselves?

The next time we hear this 'it's a matter of public safety' regarding driver's licenses - maybe we should ask loudly,

"Are you saying these people are deliberately driving when they don't know how and that they are deliberately putting everyone on the road at risk?"