Thread: WIS-Latino leaders protest Senate's removal of immigrant pro

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Great Job, Wisconsin! Quote a President and tell those illegal whiners to "aaaaawwww shuddup" and go home.

Way to go Wisconsin and WI State Senator Carpenter!!! WoooHooo!!!

Cry baby cry. The only thing illegals are entitled to is deportment
and social stigmatization. Hey, where can we in Texas get some
representatives with some backbone like Carpenter?
Ours are all bought and paid for with crooked $$.

Originally Posted by butterbean

Close Leaders in Milwaukee's Latino community expressed outrage Wednesday that state Sen. Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee) and other Democrats removed provisions in the state budget that would allow some undocumented students to pay in-state college tuition and let illegal immigrants receive certificates that would allow them to legally drive.

ARE THEY FREAKIN CRAZY! Why do these people think illegal immigrants should receive special privledges?

YOU ARE SO RIGHT MY FRIEND.THESE PEOPLE DO NOT DESERVE ANY SPECIAL PRIVLEDGES OR CONSIDERATION FOR ANY SERVICES OF ANY KIND FROM A COUNTRY IN WHICH THEY ARE RESIDING ILLEGALLY. THEY ACT AS IF THEY ARE OWED THESE THINGS AND A LOT MORE FROM THIS COUNTRY AND ITS CITIZENS. THEY NEED TO GO HOME AND MAKE DEMANDS OF THEIR HOME COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN. HOW MUCH LONGER IS THIS GOING TO GO ON? THIS COUNTRY IS BROKE FROM ALL OF THE FREEBIES THAT THESE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN RECEIVING ANY WAY

Originally Posted by American-ized

Milwaukee School Board member Larry Miller added: "Shame on you, Senator Carpenter. This is an outrage. Our job is to support our students, and in-state tuition and driver's licenses are fundamental rights."

Um no, Larry Miller, going to college and driver's licenses are a U.S. PRIVILEDGE, NOT A RIGHT!!!

LARRY MILLER NEEDS TO LOOSE HIS SEAT ON THE SCHOOL BOARD FOR THINKING LIKE THIS. THOSE WHO ARE HERE ILLEGALLY ONLY DESERVE A ONE WAY TICKET HOME AND NOTHING MORE.

Published - Tuesday, June 23, 2009

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Supporters of illegal immigrant driver cards rally at Capitol
By RYAN J. FOLEY


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MADISON — Allowing illegal immigrants to qualify for special driver’s cards would make the roads safer, reduce insurance rates and generate much-needed revenue for state government, supporters said Monday.

Supporters pressed those points at a news conference, a noisy rally outside the Capitol and in meetings with lawmakers as they pushed for Wisconsin to follow Utah in offering the cards.
The Legislature’s budget committee last month approved a last-minute addition to the state budget to establish the cards and the Assembly approved the plan.

The state Senate, however, stripped the provision out of its version of the budget passed last week. Assembly and Senate leaders are expected to begin reconciling their differences in the budget this week.

Residents who could not prove they are legal U.S. citizens would receive the cards from the Department of Transportation if they passed driving and eyesight tests. The cards would state in bold letters they could not be used for purposes other than driving and would not establish U.S. residency.

Coalition for Safe Roads, a group that includes law enforcement, religious, farming and Latino leaders, organized Monday’s lobbying effort, arguing that illegal immigrants should receive the cards so they can drive to work and buy car insurance.

A 2006 law making illegal immigrants ineligible for driver’s licenses “has made the roads where I drive unsafe,â€

Debate over "Driver's Cards" for Illegal Immigrants
Immigrant rights activists are trying to get the state to issue driver's cards for undocumented immigrants. That's despite the fact that the item was removed from the state budget, recently passed by the Senate. WUWM's Ann-Elise Henzl reports.


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The biennial budget bill approved by the state Assembly included a provision to create the driver's cards. They would serve as limited purpose driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants, and for legal immigrants who can't provide proof of their legal status.

The state Senate removed the measure from its budget. Some law officers are among the supporters of the driver's cards.

Shorewood Police Chief David Banaszynski says they would put more safe drivers on the street.

"They have to pass the driving skills test, they have to have the written test, they have to have the eyesight exams, so to me those people are safer because at least we have some identification on them, we have some idea of who they are, they passed all the driving tests that we require of anybody else in the state," Banaszynski says.

The immigrant rights group Voces de la Frontera and others filled the state Capitol Monday, urging lawmakers to support the drivers' cards.

"This is not an immigration issue, it's the job of the federal government -- that's their job. It is the job of the state government to ensure safety on our public roads."

Christine Neumann Ortiz is particularly upset with Democratic state Sen. Tim Carpenter from Milwaukee. His constituency is heavily Latino, and he was one of the people who pulled the driver's cards from the Senate's budget.

"We call on the Democratic Party leadership and Sen. Carpenter to lead, to not cater to the politics of division and hate that have been a blight in the chapters of American history against different ethnic and racial groups at different times, and to represent the best of Wisconsin's progressive tradition and fight for public safety and the principles of equality," Neumann Ortiz says.

Sen. Carpenter did not return our call asking for a comment. However, in a written statement he said 90 percent of his constituents who've contacted his office are opposed to giving driving privileges to people who can't prove they're in the country legally. Carpenter says he's also concerned because the Joint Finance Committee inserted the proposal into the budget, without allowing testimony from interested parties, such as law enforcement.

Shorewood Police Chief Banaszynski says while he sees advantages of the driver's cards, not all of his peers do. Banaszynski is the president of the Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Association. He says a number of its members think the driver's cards could lead to fraud among people who receive the cards.

"They think that they're going to get this driver's card using false identification and once they have this drivers card -- even though it says it's only good for driver's card not for other identification -- that they'll be able to get other types of identification, other credit cards or things, and be able to defraud the system," Banaszynski says.

Banaszynski says chiefs of police are split about 50-50 on the issue. So instead of endorsing or opposing the driver's cards, the Chiefs of Police Association will encourage its members to make up their own minds, and contact lawmakers directly.

The driver's card proposal may come up for discussion among lawmakers this week, as they're expected to meet in committee to resolve differences between the Senate and Assembly versions of the budget.

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