California Revokes 17,000 Commercial Driver's Licenses for Immigrants
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California revoked 17,000 commercial driver's licenses due to expired immigration status, sparking debate over the state's handling of I-9 verification and immigration laws.
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Oopsie. Honest mistake(s) x17,000
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I-9 verification has been law since .... November 1986
CDL is for work and requires i9 verification.
This is not new. Plenty of time to do it right...
Every one of those required an I-9 check. This means somebody changed the procedure to not require a federally mandated check. Not a small oopsie by one person - a deliberate action from top.
CDL is for work and requires i9 verification.
This is not new
You do not need any "meshing" to know that work requires work authorization. It has been the case since before most current DMV workers were born!
Or, I'm guessing this was the intent of the law they're now enforcing.
You can draw a straight line between these "mistakes" and these people violating traffic laws in such a way that they kill other motorists abiding by all traffic laws.
By your reasoning, I can burn your house down and kill your family, and it's absolved by apologizing.
What you don't understand is suicidal empathy eventually corrects itself with extremely violent vigilantism. And when (not if) that happens, you'll be begging for the state to come in to restore order, but they will be unable to. The state has already ceded legitimacy by not performing their duties, and what you're left with are violent gangs and warlords.
Dark triad sociopaths view this as a way to cease power. What they miss is real power comes from groups of armed individuals, not from a ballot box.
Yes, "your drivers license doesn't expire when your work visa does" is exactly like "burning your house down and killing your family". This is a sane, logical thing to say, and reflects an expected level of adult maturity.
The best part is that nobody really noticed what California did for years. These people are on the open road unseen and constantly on the move. They are dispersed onto the highway system so they were able to do it quietly.
I myself didn't notice it until I started seeing a dramatic increase in truckers doing dangerous things while I was on long road trips that I never saw in years past. The change was noticeable. It was not until I started researching that I realized what was going on. Then of course the tragic accident in FL brought it to national attention and here we are.