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Photo: Sample of a Massachusetts commercial drivers license. (Credit: mass.gov/rmv)

By Will Brownsberger

Current Massachusetts law provides that no [drivers] license of any type may be issued to any person who does not have lawful presence in the United States.

A bill currently before the senatewould change that sentence to read: An applicant for a [drivers] license who does not provide proof of lawful presence, , shall be eligible if the applicant meets all other qualifications for licensure and provides satisfactory proof to the registrar of their identity, date of birth and Massachusetts residency.

In other words, the bill would give licenses to people who cannot prove lawful presence in the United States, provided they can prove their residence and identity and pass the same tests that everyone else has to pass.

I plan to support the bill.

My fundamental view about immigration policy is that it is up to the federal government. It is not the concern of state and local government. However, one of the top concerns of state and local government is to assure that all drivers know the rules of the road and how to operate a vehicle safely. It is often necessary to drive and we are all safer if more of the people on our roads have the required training and insurance.

Some argue that to discourage illegal immigration, we should make life in Massachusetts as inconvenient and uncomfortable as possible for people without lawful immigrant status. I do not agree with that approach. We hurt ourselves when we isolate people in our midst. We benefit from immigrant labor in many occupations and we should treat all workers as well as we can.

Others express the valid concern that a drivers license is an identification card and we do not want to facilitate the creation of false credentials. The bill gives this concern careful attention in two different ways.

First, the bill does not allow persons who cannot prove lawful presence to get a Real-ID which would get them into federal buildings and on to planes. Instead, they will get a card that is valid as a license to drive but is not valid for federal identification.

Second, applicants for a license who do not possess United States identity credentials like a U.S. passport will have to provide similarly rigorous foreign credentials a foreign passport or anidentity card issued by their consulate. In addition, they will have to provide a corroborating document like a license from another state or a birth certificate. At least one of the proferred documents must be a photo ID and at least one must include birth date.

Some have expressed the concern that since one can register to vote through the drivers license application process, the new law would allow non-citizens to vote. Again, the law specifically speaks to this, requiring the Registry of Motor Vehicles to establish procedures to ensure that an applicant for a Massachusetts license who does not provide proof of lawful presence shall not be automatically registered to vote. The law would not take effect for a year, allowing time to assure that these procedures are in place.

While the new law cements the requirement of procedures to protect the voter rolls, procedures are already in place according to the Secretary of State. He stateson his website that The RMV collect[s] information about lawful presence in the United States and they will not submit names to local election officials of any persons they have determined are not U.S. citizens. This is not a new concern. Currently many people who are not citizens but are lawfully present in the United States have drivers licenses: for example, a green card holder can get a license.

Similar legislation has been passed in 16 other states. The bill has the support ofmany law enforcement officers, including the Sheriffs of Middlesex County and Suffolk County, and the police chiefs of Cambridge, Belmont, and Watertown.

The Massachusetts House of Representatives has already voted for this bill by 120-36. I expect the Senate to take it up and I hope we are able to give it a similar strong endorsement and send it to the Governors desk.

Belmont resident Will Brownsberger is a Massachusetts state senator representing the Second Suffolk and Middlesex District that includes Belmont.

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Opinion: My Support For Bill To Allow Drivers' Licenses To Residents Without Lawful Immigrant Status - The Belmontonian

WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today released the following statement regarding reports of federal contractors flying illegal immigrants from the southern border to other points across the country late at night:

The recent reports of immigrants being driven and flown across the country in the dead of night are truly breathtaking, Wicker said. The crisis at our border has steadily worsened since President Biden took office and shows no signs of slowing down. Strong countries need strong borders. The constant surge of migrants across our border threatens to undermine American national security and the rule of law. President Biden should act now to restore confidence in our border and reinstitute the tough policies of the last administration.

Until the President acts to get this crisis under control, Congress should cut off funding for this transportation in any future appropriation and investigate the wholesale failure of the Biden Administration to prevent this crisis.

The flights, which have been widely reported after months of surging illegal migration, regularly distribute illegal immigrants who are awaiting trial to communities across the country with little to no notice given to local authorities.

Wicker called out the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions in August when a group of 90 migrants were dropped off at a bus station in Natchez, Miss.

Read more about Senator Wickers recent work on the border issue here.

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The Biden administration doesnt want media attention on illegal immigration, its open border policies, or the results of those policies. How do we know? A security officer just said so, in anexplosive video of secretive, dark-of-night flightstransporting illegal immigrants to various points throughout the U.S.

This video merits coast-to-coast media coverage, not just to expose the administrations stealth operations that flout the laws, but to encourage Americans and leaders at all levels of government to demand that the administration start protecting our border, our country, and our citizens.

The list of lies administration officials have told regarding their handling of illegal immigration is extensive and still growing. How many times have they refused to call the historic numbers of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border a crisis or implausibly claimed the border is closed?

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas grossly pushed the false racist narrative that Border Patrol agents on horseback mistreated migrants attempting to illegally enter during the Del Rio International Bridge episode. Bidens Federal Aviation Administration made up a ridiculous drone ban, prohibitingFox News from showing any more footageof the thousands of mostly Haitian illegal immigrants amassing under that bridge. (The FAA rescinded the ban after reporter Bill Melugin continued filming the Del Rio crisis from a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter.)

Over the last several months, night flights of illegal migrants have been periodically reported in places such as Florida, New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. In each instance, state and local officials received no notice they were coming, let alone given an option to refuse them admission. The administration has no apparent concern with how these air lifts may burden local officials with additional costs and facilities capacity in areas such as education, housing, healthcare and law enforcement.

When asked why the administration was flying illegal immigrants in the middle of the night, press secretary Jen Psaki belittled the reporter and then lied. She claimed that the flights were resettling unaccompanied children. Yet videos of these surreptitious flights clearly show full grown adults emerging from the planes. At best, this is lying by omission.

Videos posted this week reveal more lies by the Administration. They show streams of adult males being released inBrownsville and San Antonio, Texas. This reportedly has been occurring since last spring. Some are known to have criminal records, including drunk driving, assault, and drug possession. Yet Biden officials have stated that only family units and unaccompanied alien children are being release, not single adults.

By law, Mexican males are usually subject to Expedited Removal to quickly return them over the border. If they are from a non-contiguous country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement usually detains them because they are not subject to the arbitrary 20-day Flores detention rule applied to families and unaccompanied children.

Releasing single adult malesis a game ender for trying to enforce immigration law. Releasing this population means all demographics of illegal immigrants are now being released whether single or a family, young or old. By failing to detain or remove single adult males, the Administration has removed the last disincentive to illegal immigration. Smugglers will market this and enrich themselves even beyond the billions theyve already made since Biden took office.

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Single adult males are the easiest group for terrorists to hide among as large numbers are released into the U.S. Historically, single adult males made up the largest number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. Now, we can expect those numbers to balloon once again.

The Biden administration calls their immigration approach fair, orderly, and humane. But if they are so proud of their policies and their practice of processing so many non-citizens into the U.S., why do it under the darkness of night? And why lie about it?

This Administration tells us not to believe our lying eyes. Americans need to open their eyes, watch the video, and demand that Washington secure our borders NOW.

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Biden Encourages Massive Illegal Immigration and Tries To Hide It With Secret Flights - Heritage.org

Each year through the budgetary process, Congress allocates approximately $2 billion to Border Patrol. The funding is justified and defended by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which claims DHS works to protect the American people and economy by preventing the illegal movement of people and contraband across U.S. borders while facilitating legitimate trade and travel.

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the mission of the force is to, Protect the American people, safeguard our borders, and enhance the nations economic prosperity.

Further, the core values include a dedication to defending and upholding the Constitution of the United States. Integrity is touted as the cornerstone of the work agents do, guided by the highest ethical and moral principles bringing honor to ourselves and our agency.

But since President BidenJoe BidenBriahna Joy Gray: Biden's Supreme Court promise 'bare minimum' gesture to Black voters House GOP leader says State of the Union attendance could be capped: report Record enrollment numbers send a clear message about health care affordability, access MORE took office in January 2021, the unofficial mission of Border Patrol has shifted to processing millions of illegal immigrants. This takes important time away from essential frontline patrols and drug interdictions. As a consequence, Border Patrol has become detached from its stated mission and priorities.

On Oct. 4, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security announced it was reimplementing Title 42, which requires the immediate expulsion of single adults.

The Department of Homeland Security will continue to process individuals in accordance with the updated Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) Title 42 Order. As part the United States COVID-19 mitigation efforts, DHS will continue to expel single adults and families encountered at the Southwest Border, the Department of Homeland Security released in a statement.

Since then, the policy has hardly been enforced, and recent video footage obtained by Fox News shows thousands of single adult males being processed, put onto planes or buses and taken to cities across the country for release. Worse, Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed many of the men released have serious and violent criminal records.

According to U.S. Code, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts is a federal crime. The federal government has engaged in the transport of countless illegal immigrants.

Tensions boiled over last week when agents openly confronted Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz about illegal immigration and how leadership is handling the situation.

Under this administration, in the last year, weve got the highest fentanyl deaths in the history of our country, one agent said. How many [fentanyl seizures] are we missing because were focusing on these families?

For evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Good men are doing nothing. Youre allowing illegal aliens to be dropped off in communities, another added.

Ortiz shot back by claiming he shows up every day to carry out the mission, but did not clearly define what that mission is or address concerns about Bidens border policy violating the law enforcement agencys official mission.

We continue to do the job and the mission that we signed up for. We all signed up for it, we all raised our hand, Ortiz said. Everyday I wake up and Im committed to this organization.

Meanwhile, calls for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro MayorkasAlejandro MayorkasVandals strike Chicago synagogue, businesses Few migrants escape Remain in Mexico, despite Biden-era reforms Senate Republicans press federal authorities for information on Texas synagogue hostage-taker MORE to step down are growing louder as he knowingly mandates the violation of U.S. immigration law.

He has lost the trust and confidence of the men and women of DHS law enforcement, former Acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said during a recent event at the Heritage Foundation. I continue to speak with our frontline agents, and their anger, exhaustion, and frustration with this secretary are apparent. He has not only destroyed the most secure border in our lifetimehe has repeatedly lied to the American people about the cascading impacts to our countrys public safety, health, and national security.

American taxpayers are owed a Border Patrol that lives up to its mission to protect the country not one that simply processes law breakers through a system that ultimately places them into American communities. Whats happening at the border and the behavior of so-called leadership is anything but honorable. Worse, implementing President Bidens open border agenda has forced agents to unwillingly violate their oaths and to disregard the law.

Pavlich is the editor for Townhall.com and a Fox News contributor.

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To the editor:

An open letter to Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner.

We are so distressed about President Biden lying to us about the transport of illegal aliens into our communities. It is bad enough that it is happening at all, in the dark secret of night, mind you. Worse yet is the fact that this morning he, the president of our country, out and out stated that it is not happening. We have seen the films and heard the witnesses. How can he deny this? This is so reminiscent of dictatorships and communist countries I experienced in the past. This is the Are you going to believe me or your lying eyes? comments of the worst of the worst governments.

Are you aware of all the fentanyl that is now in the United States because of our Democrat policy regarding the border management?

Are you aware of the high number of criminal illegal aliens that our president is allowing into the country? I am not even including the ones that entered undetected. The current accepted and dictated policies of our Democrat Party is to allow even illegals with criminal pasts to enter. We have read about this and heard about it enough to not be proud of the party any more.

Worse than all that I have pointed out here, and there is more, is the fact that we are aware of nothing our Virginia Senators have done to change any of it. This makes you complicit.

R. Dorien de Lusignan

Suffolk

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Get immigration policy straight - The Suffolk News-Herald - Suffolk News-Herald