House panel passes driver license for illegal alien bill

April 29, 2015 By Pratt on Texas 12 Comments
Robert Pratt

“State Affairs panel votes for driver’s permit legislation” – interesting how even the Rio Grande Guardian took the Dallas Morning News path on this headline and left out the most important words from the headline: illegal alien.
Yes the Republican dominated Texas House State Affairs Committee which is chaired by Speaker Straus ally Byron Cook of Corsicana, passed a driver license for illegal aliens bill by a vote of seven to three. Worse yet the bill, HB 4063, was authored not by a Democrat but by Representative Cook.
And it’s no surprise that Bill Hammond and the Texas Association of [Big] Business is supportive. That group says we need to keep the margins tax; fully support the homosexual political agenda which puts businesses at risk for fines and harassment, and; now TAB is supportive of further enabling the lawless illegal immigration crisis with which Texans are faced.
The silliest argument offered to support this bill is that with its passage those residing in our country without legal permission will suddenly develop a respect for the rule of law and shell out big money for vehicle liability insurance! On its face this is a ridiculous argument but, it also flies in the face of other key facts related to insurance.
Do you remember that just a few years ago we put in-place a statewide electronic database system to track liability insurance? Do you remember why? Because about the same percentage of people who didn’t buy liability insurance before it was made mandatory still didn’t buy the insurance decades later. But suddenly Democrats and some Democrat-lite Straus team members think those who don’t bother to be here legally will bother to comply with state traffic laws.

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