Licensing illegal aliens

Washington Times:

The House Judiciary Committee chairman introduced a bill to clamp down on illegal aliens' use of driver's licenses and to give judges more discretion to deny claims of asylum, beginning the new Congress' first fight over immigration.
Hours after President Bush called for action on his guest-worker program, which would give illegal aliens now in the country temporary legal status, Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. introduced a bill to clamp down on illegal aliens' ability to live and work under the radar by restricting their ability to obtain and use driver's licenses.

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The measure requires that any driver's license used as a form of identification to a federal official, such as a Transportation Security Administration screener at an airport, meet national standards that include a check on whether the holder is in the country legally.
The bill doesn't force states to change their laws, but makes driver's licenses from such states inadmissible for federal identification purposes.
A provision should be added to the bill that would require the states to provide federal immigration authorities with the name and address of each registered illegal alien driver. This assumes, of course, that people are serious about enforcing immigration laws.

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