Commentary on "No More Excuses!"

On Friday, April 26, 2013, Let Me Speak! wrote an article titled "No More Excuses!" which I made the following commentary on:

Dear Let Me Speak!,

I enjoyed reading your article titled, "No More Excuses!" and highly respect your point of view on this controversial issue. With that being said, I have a slightly different point of view.

While I do agree that everyone should have the right to obtain proper identification in this state, I do not agree with allowing illegal aliens to obtain such licensing. My main issue with this new law you are writing about, is that we are reinforcing illegal behavior. Yes, in one hand it will help everyone because they can be identified more easily. On the other hand, they are here illegally.

Instead of passing a new law to license the undocumented illegal aliens, Texas should be reforming our immigration laws. My entire point is that IF they had come to our state/ country LEGALLY, they would not have an issue getting documented.

I am an advocate for human rights, and definitely see where this new law could benefit Texans. I agree with your comments that it will help in situations of car accidents and insurance needs. My question to that though would be, why should we allow an illegal alien to have a valid driver's license and automobile insurance? I guess I can see the point is that they will drive anyways, so why not just allow them to drive legally.

I also completely disagree that this will help our Texas economy. These undocumented people do NOT pay taxes, own homes, use financing and pay interest, and so forth. These are the things that stimulate the economy. If we pass this law, we are basically saying that coming here illegally is OKAY, and there's no need to do it the right way.

In conclusion, I have to say this is a very poor solution to our immigration problem. Yes, there are a few benefits to this new law, but overall there are more negative attributes. Before we begin to enable illegal behavior, we need to find easier solutions for undocumented aliens to become citizens.