Immigration needs to be done legally

State Rep. Dennis Richardson asked me about giving provisional driver’s licenses to illegal aliens as Oregon SB833 made its way through the process.

When I was collecting signatures for local measure 5-191 enforcing E-Verify as standard hiring practice back in 2008, 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. 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 yearlong wait they will be driving illegally, here illegally and unable to understand our laws, illegally.

We are now fostering this occupation. Illegals need to go home, get in line and come back legally like her husband.

Wayne Mayo

Scappoose