Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "State Cancels US Citizen’s Driver’s License - Says He’s Not a US Citizen" video.

@jilbertb Why would you need to read English to drive a car? People are typically allowed to drive in the US with a foreign driver's license.
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@P_RO_ It's state by state, around here that's not the case, we get a choice of whether or not we want/need one that's compliant. Other states, have opted that they're less concerned with undocumented residents driving without a license than having their ID not prove legal residency or citizenship. The whole business of the Feds getting to dictate this is pretty ridiculous. It's a driver's license and if you need to prove citizenship or legal residency, there are other documents for that. Most, if not all, states put a bar code or similar on their driver's license which makes it extremely fast for federal offices to verify the status of the people with the possessed ID.
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@jgrenwod It's WA, there's no requirement that you prove residency to get the license because we would rather have people driving legally than driving illegally. The folks here without documentation are here whether or not they have a license to drive. The question is whether or not they are able to do so safely.
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@Wolfie713 He may not want it, but in many states you either get a RealID compliant driver's license or none at all. Around here the state decided that it was more important to have people diving actually licensed, so the driver's license doesn't involve checking citizenship information. The upside is that there isn't any sort of excuse for people without documentation to get a license. The downside, is that any decade now we're not going to be able to use our driver's licenses to go onto federal property because the license doesn't demonstrate our right to be in the country. The whole thing is both racist and ignorant.
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@charlesbirr6782 How did I get my passport then? I got my passport when I was in highschool and I didn't feel the need to get a driver's license until years later.
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@fredericrike5974 Yes, around here no residency requirements to get the license, but I don't live in Tennessee. I think that it's messed up that the feds are allowed to make this rule as it just means that people who don't have the documentation, but are already in the country, don't get a legal license to drive. Some states, like Tennessee, are more concerned with people's residency status than whether they're safe to drive on the roads, some other states are more concerned with the people that are already here illegally being able to safely drive. Chances are that they're here illegally and they're going to drive illegally, the difference is whether or not you want them to have passed the driver's licensing tests.
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@CraigGrant-sh3in That's part of why I refuse to say that BS "thank you for our service." Everybody involve knows full well how completely meaningless it is to thank vets for their service when the VA is such an absolute disgrace and the country keeps sending military personnel into places with little strategic value and with little consideration for ensuring that there aren't any war crimes being committed.
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It could be worse. I saw a story a while back about a marine vet that lost his citizenship in Australia when he enlisted in the USMC, and is now stateless because the government decided that to get citizenship via military service that there has to be hostilities going on. And the fact that the first Iraq war had ended before he was fully trained meant that he didn't qualify.
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@Fadamor Yes, but that doesn't stop the Feds from trying. One of these decades they may actually start enforcing the requirements of the RealID act even though it's blatantly unconstitutional to require such an ID for the purposes that it's being required for.
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In all fairness, what did these people expect? Recruiters can say whatever they like to induce people to sign up and whatever lies they tell are rarely sufficient to get you out of the contract.
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@scriptles It depends on the state as the Feds don't have the constitutional authority to dictate who can and can't have a driver's license.
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@wholeNwon Everybody needs a birth certificate at some point in their lives. It's used in a lot of official forms.
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@Wyonative08 As long as he's got an American parent, the nationality of the birth certificate isn't an issue. It's one of the issues that can crop up with birthright citizenship where being born in the country or being born to citizens leads to automatic citizenship.
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@thatjeff7550 That's the only driver's license available in Tennessee. Many other states do not require proof of legal residency to get a driver's license. It depends whether the state is more concerned about road safety or people being in the country legally.
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@Drebin2293 There really isn't. By making the only driver's license in the state require legal residency, it means that the folks that are here illegally also drive illegally. Folks flying between airports really have no reason to demonstrate citizenship as they're already in the country. We don't make people go through border control every time they get on or off a plane, so why are we checking for citizenship every time we get on a plane? (Assuming this time they actually follow through on making the RealID compliance mandatory)
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@Manolo0528 I've lived overseas where other languages are used, there isn't really much actual literacy required to understand street signs.
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@jamesodell3064 Most people interpret natural born citizen to be anybody that is a citizen without having to go through the naturalization process. In the case of McCain, he had parents that were citizens, and same goes for Ted Cruz. They're both horrible people, but they were both legally permitted to run for that office.
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@Wolfie713 First off, it's a typo, you know perfectly well that it's a typo. Around here we would rather have people driving with a license than driving illegally and possibly not knowing how. As far as the racism angle, it's completely racially motivated that they would prefer the people that are here illegally to drive illegally than to just license them and, hopefully, have them having some idea what they're doing. As far as that first bit goes, clearly we're not quite on the same page. None of this would be a problem if a bunch of racist folks weren't more concerned with residency requirements than safety on the roads.
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@davepowder4020 What gets me is that it's largely the same state's rights politicians that pushed the Real ID act the hardest.
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@jimdavis1566 Umm, what the GOP only considers somebody to have a right to life before they're born or are on their death bed. After that, they really and truly don't care. Capital Punishment, Health Care, Wars, these are all very popular with the GOP.
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