Lawyers: Approved Deferred Action Applicants Can Get IDs
Immigration lawyers and legal scholars say applicants who are approved for deferred action will be able to obtain state-issued ID cards and driver’s licenses under state policies, despite their lack of official legal status in the country.
Gov. Rick Perry on Monday issued a memo to state agencies reminding them that despite the federal policy that allows some illegal immigrants a two-year reprieve from deportation and a renewable work permit, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, Texas' policies on individuals in the country illegally remain unchanged.
Perry’s office said the governor had no plans to ...
Comments (10)
gypsy314 ne
If they are here legally more power to them. Either we are a nation of laws or not and illegal aliens are not legal and should leave now and take their children with them.
Mary Muna via Texas Tribune on Facebook
at least it gives accountability and fingerprinting
Mike Openshaw via Texas Tribune on Facebook
These 'deferment of deportation' are being issued under an Executive Order, not under the LAW. As such they have no constitutionally viable status. Issuing a license under that would be a violation of the rule of law. Suing to issue such licenses would be a frivolous act and should be ruled such by the courts.
Adam Miller via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Way to go, dps.
Frank Bussey via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Either we are a nation of laws or not and illegal aliens are not legal.
This twisting of words does nothing but blur the lines of legal versus illegal.
So now we have legal - illegal aliens. It is an oxymoron.
This nothing but ambulance chasing lawyers gone amok and now they are running the country.
So now we are going to ignore the elephant in the room. These people are breaking the law.
If you steal for enough years and start early enough is that going to become a legal-illegal action by the stroke of a petty politician's pen?
Dave S
As a matter of general policy, I could agree with making these sort of people legal. But the way Obama has done it is blatantly unconstitutional, and granting those allowed "deferred action" anything beyond immunity from deportation is completely wrong.
Enforce the law. Fine those that employ illegal immigrants $10,000 each.
Audrey Fisher via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And magically, some here whining say that a fetus is a person - but an innocent child is irrelevant.
Mike Openshaw via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Audrey, we're hardly talking about KILLING anyone here; not getting a driver's license because you are ILLEGALLY in this country hardly rises to that. My own son- born in America- has spent the equivalent of years in his mother's homeland, without serious detriment.
Anya Khan
Of course illegals are willing to sue Texas. It is not like the have any loyalty to the state or to the US
Sergio Hernandez De Santos via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Me likes it alotta peoples getting hot and bothered o'er this, I'll keep laying them bricks and my son will drive the pick up