Thread: LULAC Ohio : LULAC Ohio Joins Campaign Against Ohio's Vehicl

The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) of Ohio joins with numerous community leaders and organizations to demand the halt of the December 8, 2009 cancellation of 47,457 vehicle registrations by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV). This is the Ohio Department of Public Safety’s attempt to require vehicle owners to provide a social security number even though no actual law exists to back such a requisite. This act is merely a thinly veiled and inappropriate attempt to enforce federal immigration policy at the state level.



LULAC deems this act by Governor Ted Strickland's administration to be highly dangerous to the public safety and our state’s collective consciousness. Further, this act will devastate Ohio’s current and future economic development, even as we are locked in the midst of the worst economic crises since The Great Depression. LULAC finds this act to violate current Ohio laws in the following ways:



1) Ohio Revised Code § 4503.10 does not specify whether driver’s licenses or identification cards have to be from Ohio. The Bureau of Motor Vehicles misquotes the Ohio Revised Code and imposes restrictions beyond the reach of the law.



2) The enforcement of Immigration law is solely the duty and responsibility of the federal government. In a misguided and ideological step to prevent the increase of immigration, Ohio is attempting to enforce immigration law without legal basis or authority.



3) By invalidating vehicle registrations prior to expiration dates, the state chooses to breach their contracts with the 47,457 affected vehicle owners. Contrariwise, each of the 47,457 affected individuals and businesses—directly and deliberately targeted by this policy—has paid consideration to the state and is therefore entitled to the full privileges of the contract with the state.



The effect of this policy stretches far beyond the 47,457 targeted vehicle registrants. The negative effects of this policy will reach all of Ohio’s families, businesses and workers regardless of background. The only success of this policy will be to cost our state several Congressional seats due to negative population growth. Fewer seats translate to decreased funding for one of the most at need states in The Union. Additionally, our state will lose millions of dollars in income, sales and property tax revenues. Decreased taxes means less funding for much needed state projects. Furthermore, if there are fewer people to pay taxes to the state, then the state will be forced to raise taxes on the population that remains. In the end, our state stands the grave chance of losing nearly 50,000 productive, tax paying, working and business class residents. Such a result would be socially and economically catastrophic to generations of Ohioans to come.



Up to this point, the subject of undocumented immigration in Ohio has been utilized as a sensational political wedge issue. To eliminate the vehicle registrations of nearly 50,000 Ohio residents is not the way forward. Such an act will destroy our state’s economic recovery and is not a serious answer to the question of undocumented immigration. All empirical research on the subject invalidates the claims of those who seek to capitalize on the topic for cynical political gain. By way of a productive and substantive conversation, LULAC believes Ohio can move past this spectacle in order to address the immigration debate head on.



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The League of United Latin American Citizens advances the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, housing, health and civil rights of Hispanic Americans through community-based programs operating at more than 700 LULAC councils nationwide.
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Ohio needs to stand its ground.

It is the onslaught of the illegal/foreign worker that has demeaned our economy, not the enforcement of our common sense humanitarian laws.

By invalidating vehicle registrations prior to expiration dates, the state chooses to breach their contracts with the 47,457 affected vehicle owners. Contrariwise, each of the 47,457 affected individuals and businesses—directly and deliberately targeted by this policy—has paid consideration to the state and is therefore entitled to the full privileges of the contract with the state.

What a load! ALL the people who fail to meet the requirements fail to uphold [b]their end of the contract, but I guess we are supposed to overlook that fact!

OHIO, stand your ground.

LULAC is a big pain in our ass and I hope they don't cave to this ethnocentric radical racist group....we have to much of this going on in this country.

Tell LULAC to take a hike! preferably to any country South of the U.S. .

TOSS THEM ALL IN JAIL I SAY. who is lulac to stand up to the state of ohio on this BS complaint? a drivers lic is a PRIVLEGE not a right.

So the Govenor should call in the Feds and let them deal with the FRAUD and Identity Theft the IA's are guilty of and let the feds Arrest them ALL.

More privileges, for those here on American soil, illegally!!

Will the hair on the back of my neck, ever go down?

Originally Posted by Floorguy

Will the hair on the back of my neck, ever go down?

Doubtful,mine hasn't since the infamous 2006 IA March.