(Gregg Pupecki, Headline USA) Radical leftist legislators in Massachusetts decided to ignore polling by overriding Republican Gov. Charlie Baker’s veto of a bill called the Work and Family Mobility Act, which would grant illegal immigrants the privilege of obtaining a Massachusetts driver’s license.
Next they will give them a free car since they have a license
— Captain Gregg (@chicagorhetoric) June 10, 2022
Baker vetoed the bill last month, saying in a statement that it “undoes a critical safeguard to the driver’s license issuance process” and that “the Registry of Motor Vehicles doesn’t have the expertise or ability to verify many types of documents from other countries.”
However, the legislators held a special session and rushed through a vote to override the veto, allowing the law to take effect in 12 months.
The law does not provide a visual distinction between a licensed issued to a citizen or an illegal.
“This license we’re talking about is not a privilege-to-drive card, which is what they have in a bunch of other states,” Baker said on Boston Public Radio.
“It looks exactly like a Massachusetts driver’s license,” he added. “You can’t tell the difference between this and a regular one.”
BREAKING: Democraps in Mass. have now made it legal for illegal immigrants to get drivers license’s. How is that permitted, where is their SS#, are they paying taxes? Can they even get auto insurance or does the paying American have to foot that bill when hit by uninsured driver?
— averagecitizen (@enoughtaxes) May 6, 2022
According to polling, Massachusetts citizens oppose granting driving privileges to illegal immigrants, but that didn’t stop the radical Left’s determination to reward illegal behavior while ignoring their constituents.
The push comes as many blue states aggressively seek to undermine election integrity by loosening ballot and signature requirements, making it impossible to discern who is and is not eligible to vote.
In some jurisdictions, such as New York, leftist lawmakers have even passed ordinences granting noncitizens the power to vote in state and local elections.
“We’re creating a tremendous opportunity that it could be abused for purposes for which it is not intended,” said Massachusetts state Sen. Bruce Tarr, a Republican. “It also creates an incredible threat to the integrity of the electoral process.”
The lunatic far-left Mass. legislature has passed a law guaranteeing illegal aliens access to a drivers license, in effect guaranteeing illegal aliens will be able to vote. More reason for rational Mass. citizens to do what so many rational CA citizens are doing: LEAVE.
— Rick Shaffer (@RShaffer1) May 6, 2022
Geoff Diehl, a Republican candidate for governor, issued a statement condemning the law.
“There is a profound risk of a sudden influx of illegal immigrants across our nation’s porous borders, and a danger that they will immediately have access to rights and privileges here in Massachusetts that are normally reserved for citizens of the Commonwealth,” Diehl said.
Democrat Sen. Adam Gomez, who helped ram through the legislation, claimed the law is a matter of public safety, economic growth and keeping families together.
Gomez said the law is justified because it’s for children, so that parents can pick them up at school and do errands.
“You can’t mandate education on all individuals and then not give access to their parents to bring them from Point A to Point B,” Gomez claimed. “You’re historically re-strangling a community that just wants to get to work, wants to get to their health care appointments and wants to get to school.”
Supporters of the law also claimed it will make streets safer and benefit the economy.
