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Unintended, But Highly Foreseeable Consequences

Officials in Tennessee have just learned the seemingly intuitive lesson that criminals tend to break the law.

Tennessee has ended its policy of issuing "certificates for driving" to illegal immigrants, citing federal investigations that uncovered applicants using fraudulent documents — and even bribing state workers — to obtain driving privileges, officials said Friday.
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Bob Corney, a spokesman for Tennessee's Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen, said the governor's office was informed that immigrants were coming from other states to get the certificates, using forged residency documents. Last month, a former worker at a driver's license office was sentenced to two years in federal prison for issuing more than 40 certificates to unqualified immigrants, taking a $400 bribe for each fraudulent card.

Whoulda thunk it, eh, Tennessee?  Not to mention the fact that any program or facilitation like this that makes illegals' stay here in the U.S. more palatable only adds more incentive to illegal immigration.  I'm glad this program has ended, but it should have been killed on its merits, not because it was abused.

The illegals pushing false documents were breaking the law well before they defrauded this asinine program.

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Unintended, But Highly Foreseeable Consequences

Officials in Tennessee have just learned the seemingly intuitive lesson that criminals tend to break the law.

Tennessee has ended its policy of issuing "certificates for driving" to illegal immigrants, citing federal investigations that uncovered applicants using fraudulent documents — and even bribing state workers — to obtain driving privileges, officials said Friday.
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Bob Corney, a spokesman for Tennessee's Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen, said the governor's office was informed that immigrants were coming from other states to get the certificates, using forged residency documents. Last month, a former worker at a driver's license office was sentenced to two years in federal prison for issuing more than 40 certificates to unqualified immigrants, taking a $400 bribe for each fraudulent card.

Whoulda thunk it, eh, Tennessee?  Not to mention the fact that any program or facilitation like this that makes illegals' stay here in the U.S. more palatable only adds more incentive to illegal immigration.  I'm glad this program has ended, but it should have been killed on its merits, not because it was abused.

The illegals pushing false documents were breaking the law well before they defrauded this asinine program.