Journal memfree's Journal: PA to mark non-citizen Driver's Liscense 6
Excerpt from article by Maria Panaritis and Thomas Ginsberg (this link won't last forever):
- All Pennsylvania driver's licenses or photo identification cards issued to foreigners will be stamped "noncitizen" and will be timed to expire with entry visas, according to antiterrorism provisions of a law signed yesterday by Gov. Schweiker.
The new requirements are part of a push by the Governor's Office to tighten security statewide while also adopting elements of federal homeland-security measures enacted after the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington.
If I'd seen the above in someone's journal and didn't know it was a verbatim outtake, I'd assume they got their facts wrong. We couldn't legally discriminate like that, could we? And even if we could, we wouldn't really stigmatize people that way, would we? Yes, I'm for protecting citizens from terrorism, but I gotta believe that the vast majority of non-citizens are NOT a threat of any form.
Also, if you haven't done so already, consider checking out claudia's JE that includes the response she got from her U.S. Senator, Dianne Feinstein, about the Homeland Security Act. Especially amusing was Feinstein's acknowldgement that, "Unfortunately, the final version of the Homeland Security Act contained a number of provisions giving special treatment to pharmaceutical companies, airline and rail companies, offshore tax evaders, and companies engaging in grossly negligent conduct."
For a lighter note, check out Chacham's JE on PA's poetic Judge.
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and damn, I wish I looked at the subject line's typos before submitting the JE.
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Heheh! Forget soccer, Immigration and Europe are the national sport over here in the UK - nothing else I know gets people so fired up.
Given our island's rich history of invasion and conquest (Romans, Saxons, Vikings, Normans) plus our taking in immigrants from the British Empire (now the Commonwealth), you have to laugh when you hear someone getting into a fit about defend 'our Britishness'.
Thankfully, a lot of this hang-up is passing along with the older generations, although activist groups such as the National Front and the British National Party are trying their damnedest to put the fear and hatred into the next generation.
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I remember a case concerning a Muslim women who went in to for her driver's license. She wanted her picture taken with the chador that she wears everyday in public. They refused and said it wasn't a semblance of her. Actually, it is, because when she's driving her car she's wearing her chador. I don't think this would have happened if 9/11 hadn't happened.
I just ran across a possible solution [ezrael.org] to all this crap (via Metafilter). It's brilliant in its simplicity.
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