Thread: Illegals line up for licenses

Illegals, immigrants line up for licenses
By Keyonna Summers
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
May 12, 2006


Luz Maria Sanchez is wide awake at 6 a.m. at the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA), having arrived at midnight to be first in a line of about 50 immigrants and illegal aliens waiting for the Beltsville branch to open.
"I'm tired. I haven't slept," said Miss Sanchez, a 34-year-old Salvadoran immigrant living in Hyattsville. "But [if I want a driver's license] I have to wait."
Overnight lines outside several MVA branches have evolved since the agency last month stopped taking appointments for immigrants to get driver's licenses and began a walk-in process.
Maryland license applicants do not have to be U.S. citizens, needing only to produce a variety of documents to prove state residency as well as attend a three-hour drug and alcohol course.
Immigrants and illegal aliens arrive at the MVA as early as 11 p.m., napping in cars in hopes of seeing an agent when the office opens at 7 a.m. -- an hour and a half before doors open to the general public. When the walk-in process began, some said they returned up to five nights -- skipping school or work -- because agents could not see the hundreds waiting for a limited number of spots.
"It feels like ... discrimination because we are the only people who have to do this," said William Medina, a Salvadoran immigrant on a tourist visa who lives in Oxon Hill. "I think it's something to make you quit, to make you say you don't want to do this anymore. But they are wrong. I will be here every day because I want to do things the right way and follow the law."
But MVA officials say each person in line is guaranteed a chance to go through the agency's pre-screening process, which weeds out applicants who have insufficient or incorrect documents.
"With our current walk-in procedure, twice as many people are actually getting processed than when we were doing the appointments," said MVA spokesman Buel Young.
Nearly two years ago, the agency began scheduling appointments for out-of-country applicants because the lengthy document verification process snarled regular lines. They began the walk-in process on April 17 because a 40 percent no-show rate and documentation problems rendered appointments ineffective, Mr. Young said.
Mr. Young acknowledged reports of as many as 200 people last month, and up to 100 last week, waiting outside some branches. Applicants would tussle in line when some tried to jump ahead, and MVA employees said some would urinate outside their cars during the long wait for the doors to open.
However, the number of cars lining the Beltsville MVA entrance this week was considerably fewer than the dozens that typically wrap around the corner and block traffic, an employee said. The immigrants have created their own waiting list, not recognized by the state, and quietly lined up as the MVA gates opened.
About half of the applicants are barred during pre-screenings because they have the wrong documents, Mr. Young said. "They're instructed [during pre-screenings] on what they need and advised if they have to come back with the information," he said.
Kim Propeack, a spokeswoman for the immigrant advocacy group CASA of Maryland, said the new process has improved backlogs, but there is still a gap in the quality of services for U.S.- and foreign-born license applicants, noting "the MVA isn't even explaining to people what they need, so they're making multiple trips to provide the four or five documents that they need."
That process puts immigrants' lives in danger, she said, indicating a lack of control at the sites. "At the Glen Burnie site, people wait across an eight-lane highway and have to make a mad dash across it," she said.
Last year, CASA sued the MVA, saying among other things its appointment process was discriminatory because it separates foreign-born applicants from the general public. The case is pending in Baltimore City Circuit Court.
While Maryland's Democrat-controlled legislature has killed any changes for illegal aliens to acquire a driver's license, Virginia tightened restrictions after it was learned that some September 11 hijackers had obtained state IDs.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20 ... -5789r.htm

Has anyone noticed, just how these illegals come here and immediately start complaining over everything?

But moosetracks,

They just want their rights! (Sarcasm intended )

This is what they're doing in Miami. Oh, sorry, no one in this story gave the subjects immigration status.

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-26638.html

napping in cars in

some would urinate outside their cars

Wait a minute! I thought they were there to GET a driver's license? They drove there without a license?

Lets grant driving privileges to millions of illegal aliens without licenses who are most likely using someone else's social security number and without the benefit of a written test to see if they know our rules and are able to understand the damn road signs. Forget about the road test too. I forgot that would be discrimination if we forced them to comply with our laws and la casa, raza, and those wonderful organizatïons (sarcasm intended) who aim to overthrow our government would sue everyone and anyone. But then again LaCasa is suing the mva as they claim illegal aliens who pay no taxes and are here illegally are not receiving the same level of services that tax paying citizens are. What is next? Signs in Spanish stating illegal aliens have priority over tax paying citizens?
Their advocates convieniently forget the tremendous increase in carnage on our roadways as motorvehicle laws in illegal aliens home countries are not enforced.
I am so sick and tired of all of this and the direction our country is headed and I am a 24 year veteran who fought for it. Israel is offering citizenship to American Jews and I am thinking about it as I see where we will be in 20-30 years.

Driving Test what Driving test? Laws what Laws? Insurance What Insurance? What part about Illegal Dont you understand Gringo (being sarcastic). Illegals are Illegal and have No Problemo as they always seem to jump to the head of the line to Get More Citizen Rights then the Real Law ABIDING Legal American Citizens.

I'm with you Blnhnd. Everytime I watch the news and hear them talk about what's against the law, I say WHAT LAW? There is no law. There is no need for any of us to obey laws.

This is a free for all country and anything goes. I hope 5 million illegal immigrants move to Hyannis Port and bunk down with Ted Kennedy at the Compound.

Then another 5 million should move to Crawford Texas and bunk down with Bush.

I wonder what would happen if it got out that there was some Free land in say ( Washington DC ) that could still be Homesteded if in some way you could just prove you had lived on it for more then 5 years.

Originally Posted by BldHnd

Driving Test what Driving test? Laws what Laws? Insurance What Insurance? What part about Illegal Dont you understand Gringo (being sarcastic). Illegals are Illegal and have No Problemo as they always seem to jump to the head of the line to Get More Citizen Rights then the Real Law ABIDING Legal American Citizens.

"Insurance? Me don't need no stinkeee insurance! Me crash into some gringo he pay, I run away!

Me :P all the way"

"Me get insurance for uno month an then say adios to the monthly payments."

"Gringo have insurance if I crash his car. Why I pay when gringo can?"

Originally Posted by MopheadBlue

Originally Posted by BldHnd

Driving Test what Driving test? Laws what Laws? Insurance What Insurance? What part about Illegal Dont you understand Gringo (being sarcastic). Illegals are Illegal and have No Problemo as they always seem to jump to the head of the line to Get More Citizen Rights then the Real Law ABIDING Legal American Citizens.

"Insurance? Me don't need no stinkeee insurance! Me crash into some gringo he pay, I run away!

Me :P all the way"

"Me get insurance for uno month an then say adios to the monthly payments."

"Gringo have insurance if I crash his car. Why I pay when gringo can?"

In most states, car insurance is required in order to drive legally. It helps to protect the people and things that are important to you as the driver. Without it, a person could be sued for thousands of dollars for damages or even have to pay for the funeral of a loved one without any assistance. In order to choose a cheap insurance for your budget or compare quotes to other companies have a free online insurance quotes at www.insurancepaylite.com, i was pretty much amazed with their quoting system. its automatic! you just plug in your info and the system automatically matches your information to companies with services that most closely meet your insurance needs. Those selected insurance companies process your request and contact you via email, fax, or phone with a quote.

having arrived at midnight to be first in a line of about 50 immigrants and illegal aliens waiting for the Beltsville branch to open.

Forty-nine of the fifty were probably illegal.