No matter that license should be illegal
By Michael Graham
Friday, May 11, 2012
Boston Herald:
Sometime today, Onyango “Uncle Omar” Obama — who was ordered deported from the United States back during the first Bush’s presidency — will be given a driver’s license by the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. All he has to do is show up.
When this criminal alien walks into the RMV waiting room, he’ll be walking past American citizens — many of them fighting a tooth-and-claw battle with the bureaucracy to get back the license to which they are legally entitled. Every day, Registrar Rachel Kaprielian’s legion of government hacks screw over legal citizens with legitimate complaints — all because these people can’t legally prove their identity or driving status.
But when a known illegal immigrant whose picture has been on the front page of the Boston Herald for breaking the law walks in, these very same RMV bureaucrats will happily hand over a driver’s license they know he’s not legally entitled to have.
Why? Why the heck would the same Registry stooges who have soccer moms locked up for forgetting to renew their licenses knowingly hand an illegal immigrant a driver’s license?
Kaprielian was unavailable for comment when the Herald called about Obama Wednesday, but has said in the past that it’s not the Registry’s job to check immigration status or determine if someone is legally qualified to drive.
“Obama presented a valid Social Security number and proof of residency,” an RMV spokesperson told reporters when Onyango was first busted for operating under the influence in Framingham last year.
OK, so maybe he broke the law and tricked the Registry into issuing a driver’s license 20 years ago — maybe back then the RMV didn’t know any better.
But why is Kaprielian renewing his license . . . today?
Yes we know Uncle Omar still has his bogus Social Security number and his bogus pre-boozing license. But this time — we all know it’s bogus! The guy has a standing deportation order against him right now!
What difference does it make what paperwork Onyango has?
The state of Massachusetts knows the guy is in violation of its laws. So what — the RMV is going to pretend it doesn’t know and give him the license anyway?
Nobody in the private sector would because, in the private sector, they deal in something called “reality.”
If a bank knows a check is bogus, it doesn’t just hand over the money. It says, “I’m sorry, sir, but while your documentation clearly states that you are, in fact Oprah Winfrey, we won’t able to hand her $5 million over to a 125-pound white guy today.”
Paperwork is not reality. But government bureaucrats insist on treating it like it is, which is why so many of us hate them.
The job of the Registry is to make sure driver’s licenses are legitimate — that the person holding it is who he says he is, and that he is entitled to have one.
But the Patrick administration opposes keeping driver’s licenses from illegals. It also opposed Secure Communities. In fact, it opposes anything that involves any consequences for breaking immigration laws.
Uncle Omar isn’t getting his driver’s license based on the facts. He’s getting it based on the politics.
In Massachusetts, would you expect any less?
Michael Graham hosts an afternoon drive time talk show on 96.9 WTKK.
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