Enter the country legally if you want respect

State Rep. Dennis Richardson asked about giving provisional driver’s licenses to illegal aliens (Oregon SB833).

I replied:

“When I was collecting signatures (local measure 5-191) in 2007 a woman said she married an illegal and had a child. He went back to his country, went through the paperwork and entered the country legally. She didn’t see why it should be so hard. But he did it.

I told her now that he was here legally, his green card was huge! Now it’s clear he certainly wouldn’t do anything to jeopardize his hard-fought legal status. I’d welcome them living next door. He did the right thing.

This provisional driver’s license requires a year in the state. During that year wait they will be driving illegally; here illegally; unable to understand our laws; illegally. Don’t foster this occupation.

Illegals need to go home, get in line and come back legally like he did.

Anything easy, which is what you’re considering, is degrading and takes away from the route her husband took.

Wayne Mayo

Sacpoose