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Oregonians should bar driver cards for illegal immigrants: Guest opinion

Letter date: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Letter publisher: 
The Oregonian
Letter author: 
Richard F. LaMountain
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Last week, culminating five months of effort by hundreds of volunteers, the group Protect Oregon Driver Licenses presented more than 70,000 voters' signatures to the secretary of state's office. What those signatures will do: assure a place on next year's ballot for a referendum measure to repeal Senate Bill 833, the state law passed in May that grants "driver cards" to illegal immigrants.

I am one of the referendum's chief sponsors. Why did my compatriots and I undertake this effort? Because SB833 undercuts federal efforts to regulate immigration, unemployed Oregonians' hopes of finding jobs and police and sheriffs' work to interdict drugs.

Read LaMountain's entire guest opinion about driver cards for illegal aliens.

 

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