成人X站

SEATTLE NEWS ARCHIVES & FEATURES

Dori: Thanks to illegal immigrants, you now need an enhanced driver’s license to fly

Aug 17, 2018, 7:00 AM

driver's license...

(成人X站 7)

(成人X站 7)

I will never understand Progressives. Here in Washington, I’ve got to pay more and you’ve got to pay more if you’re a citizen. Because starting in a few months, Sea-Tac and every other airport in the country will not accept the current Washington state driver’s license as ID as per federal law.

Why is that? Because we give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants here in Washington. So聽you can’t verify that someone with a Washington state driver’s license is a citizen.

Now you’ve got to get an enhanced driver’s license to fly. To do that, you’ve got to prove you’re a citizen with a birth certificate or passport or legit social security card — legit being the key word here. And you’ve got to pay more for it. It costs us money to prove we’re citizens, but illegal immigrants can still use the cheaper driver’s license, as long as they aren’t flying anywhere.

RELATED: New driver’s licenses still won’t get you through airport security

The Los Angeles Times has an discussing the Real ID law. This is a glimpse of the insanity of the mind of a liberal.

Real ID won’t make us safer, it will only divide us …聽Equally troubling is the further development of what we might call a two-tier America, based on immigration status and economic opportunity.

Well, yeah — that’s the whole point. Based on immigration status. This system is designed to sort out who is a legal citizen and who is an illegal alien. So the LA Times is railing against a two-tiered society of citizens and illegal immigrants. What’s wrong with that?

At the end of the op-ed piece, the guy says that terrorism “remains an abstraction to most of us,” which is another reason why we don’t have to do this, apparently. Yeah, tell the families in San Bernardino that terrorism is an abstraction. Tell the family of the 3-year-old whose body was found in the New Mexico compound where a bunch of Muslim extremists were teaching children to go shoot up schools — tell them that terrorism is an abstraction. When a liberal complains about a two-tier America where we’re divided between citizens and illegal aliens, I say, “Well, of course. We should be.”聽They decry that as something horrible. I’m just ticked that we, as citizens, are the ones who have to pay more.

How about this: keep our enhanced driver’s licenses at the same price, and if illegal immigrants want driver’s licenses, make those $300 licenses to subsidize the citizens.

Associated Press

Seattle man charged with string of burglaries at the homes of NFL and MLB stars

SEATTLE (AP) 鈥 A Seattle man was charged Friday with a string of burglaries at the homes of prominent current and former football and baseball players, marking the latest example of well-known athletes being targeted in home thefts. Earl Henderson Riley IV, 21, was charged with several counts of residential burglary in both occupied and […]

26 minutes ago

Associated Press

Key moments from the fourth week of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sex trafficking trial

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 The fourth week of Sean 鈥淒iddy鈥 Combs 鈥 sex trafficking trial featured testimony from the second of two ex-girlfriends who are crucial witnesses in the government鈥檚 quest to prove sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges against the hip-hop mogul. Combs, the founder of Bad Boy Records, has pleaded not guilty in […]

36 minutes ago

FILE - Hundreds of people gather to watch the 3rd Annual Sharpening of the Lake of the Isles Pencil...

Associated Press

Why a Minneapolis neighborhood sharpens a giant pencil every year

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) 鈥 Residents will gather Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual 鈥 the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil. The 20-foot-tall (6-meter-tall) pencil was sculpted out of a mammoth oak tree at the home of John and Amy Higgins. The beloved tree was damaged in a storm a few […]

37 minutes ago

FILE-Fans arrive at Fenway Park in this, Oct. 19, 2021 file photo, in Boston. (AP Photo/Robert F. B...

Associated Press

Brothers bring boxing back to Fenway after 70 years and hope to revitalize the sport in Boston

BOSTON (AP) 鈥 For the first time in nearly 70 years, boxing is returning to Boston’s famed Fenway Park. The 11-fight card is the culmination of years of effort by twin brothers and longtime public schoolteachers who grew up in Watertown and want to revitalize boxing in the city that was home to some of […]

38 minutes ago

FILE - President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it at an indoor Presidentia...

Associated Press

The 911 presidency: Trump flexes emergency powers in his second term

WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥 Call it the 911 presidency. Despite insisting that the United States is rebounding from calamity under his watch, President Donald Trump is harnessing emergency powers unlike any of his predecessors. Whether it鈥檚 leveling punishing tariffs, deploying troops to the border or sidelining environmental regulations, Trump has relied on rules and laws intended […]

39 minutes ago

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger speaks during a press conference in front of ...

Associated Press

A Virginia Democrat hunts for votes in rural pockets where MAGA has strengthened its grip

CULPEPER, Va. (AP) 鈥 Democratic politics in rural Virginia are not of a bygone era, according to Abigail Spanberger. The former congressional representative, now the Democratic nominee in the race to be Virginia鈥檚 next governor, posts videos online of herself sitting in a car on an interstate highway that goes up and down the Appalachian […]

40 minutes ago

Dori: Thanks to illegal immigrants, you now need an enhanced driver’s license to fly