I don’t know why I am surprised whenever Mike Noel (R-Kanab-District 73) opens his mouth, but sure enough, he has done it again.
That’s right, when not being anti-woman, anti-environment, and anti-schools, he is also anti-immigration. Ok, I get that, you are a conservative from Southern Utah who is so red that stop signs comment on it, but boy howdy, his comment today in the Salt Lake Tribune amazed me.
You see, new laws were put into place that require a birth certificate when apply for and renewing your drivers license so that Utah complies with the REAL id act – an act that basically makes it more difficult to get a government ID so that Osama does not just waltz into an airport and board a plane. Well this has resulted in long lines (up to six hours) and frustrated citizens who just want to get in and out of the DMV as soon as possible.
The connection to Noel? Well he sponsored the bill that would put Utah in compliance with the federal mandate. Still no problem there, as Utahns would get much more upset if they could not board an airplane to see mom and dad because the state refused to comply with the unfunded mandate. I will even believe that Noel did not “anticipate the long waits” when he sponsored the bill.
No, what bothers me is that the section of code that requires compliance was part of sweeping legislation in 2008 that was intended to crack down on immigration and Noel’s defense of the law.
In his xenophobia, he sponsored the bill and defends it – not as a way to ensure that Americans and Utahns are safe, but as a way to prevent illegal immigrants – his logic being that illegals would know that they can’t get government ID here and, therefore, not come to Utah. Now this is where the doozie comes in. People need to put up with the long lines and hickups in the computer system because Millard County Sheriff’s Deputy Josie Greathouse Fox was allegedly shot by an illegal immigrant and Noel points to this as proof of the dangers of illegal immigration.
Yup, you have to stand in line because one person shot another person and shooter just so happened to be brown. No citizen of these United States have ever shot an officer, and, come to think of it, no citizen has ever committed any crime what-so-ever.
Shame on you, Mike Noel, for taking advantage of the death of one of Utah’s finest just to push your own political ideologies. Not only is equating the death of an officer of the law by an illegal immigrant proof of the need to crack down a bit of a stretch, it is downright absurd to link it to long lines at the DMV. Your blatant disregard for facts is astounding.
I agree. Noel’s statement was pretty goofy.
As a computer programmer, what I found at least as goofy is that “he didn’t anticipate the long waits when he sponsored the state’s law”. Huh?
There are easily ways to accomplish the same thing and still allow Utahns to renew driver’s licenses online.
This writer has a problem with the rule of law. Once everyone proves that they have the right to drive by providing their “Birth Certificate” the lines will go away.
What is wrong with clamping down on “Illegal Aliens”? They have broken the law to come into the country or have overstayed their Visa’s. What do you not understand about being in this Country ILLEGELLY? Try going to a Foreign Country ILLEGELLY and see what happens to you.
You are suffering from xenopile. Look it up in the dictionary.
California spend 12 billion a year for illegal aliens welfare, food stamps, housing, medical, crime and education. 52 illegal aliens received liver transplants in 2008. Our own citizens have to pay for these services but illegal aliens do not.
You must stop illegal aliens from receiving benefits that they are not entitled to. They are not the responsibility of the citizens of this country. In addition close to 13 billion (2008) in earned income tax credits went to illegal aliens. You gotta love, you break the law and then you get a check from the IRS!
[...] well as a sound human rights bill. Certainly it acts as an actual deterrent to illegal immigration (as opposed to silly drivers license laws that just inconvenience citizens), but it also recognizes the fact that some people are brought across the border to serve as either [...]