Georgia Lawmaker Proposes Driving Cards That Identify ‘Illegal Aliens’

*Georgia State Senator Josh McKoon, who designed the license and sponsored the bill, said that without the “illegal Alien” designation “It could be used to rent a car, to purchase explosives, a number of things that frankly, have nothing to do with driving an automobile.” Because renting a car isn’t automotive. VL

By  Elise Foley, Huffington Post Politics

If a Republican state senator in Georgia gets his way, recipients of temporary reprieve from deportation would be more easily identified as undocumented — by putting their immigration status on their driving privilege cards.

The state senator, Josh McKoon, proposed new cards that would be used only for driving — not for identification, like the driver’s licenses currently issued to such residents — Atlanta’s NPR station, WABE, reported on Monday. That includes young undocumented immigrants often called Dreamers who received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.

McKoon previously proposed legislation that would take away driver’s licenses entirely for those undocumented immigrants.

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