Again, with the Licenses?

It’s simply impossible to ever know what is in someone’s mind and for that reason it’s lamentable that our society seems to have embraced the impossible, good intentions. This embrace of the unknowable no matter the results is often paired with some who go past assuming to flat out stating the ill intentions of those that dare disagree with their positions.

This morning’s Albuquerque Journal published an opinion piece by a local resident stating that providing driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants would increase safety on our road ways and unequivocally stated that those who oppose the act do so for reasons of prejudice. While it is a laudable goal to increase the safety of our roadways there is simply no way to prove that providing credentials to those in our state in contradiction to the law will do such a thing. And, it is not prejudicial to deny the rights of a citizen to a non-citizen. There are majorities of New Mexicans whom oppose the practice for any number of reasons and the federal government has passed yet to be enforced laws that render New Mexico licenses useless as a valid form of ID for federal purposes as a result of the practice.

Arguing on the side of unprovable good intentions while making judgmental statements that slander any opposing views is a definitive sign of a poor argument and the last resort of the desperate attempting to defend an illegal act. Today, a committee in the state legislature voted down a proposal along party lines to curb providing licenses to illegal immigrants. The lesson that New Mexicans can take from this, if it is indeed the desire of the populace to end this policy, is to elect legislators who will act on the will of the people and established law.