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Dumb in Tennessee

Man, dumb in Tennessee. First, in 2001, Tennessee gives just about anyone a drivers license. Forget having a social security number, just come and bring your helpers to stand beside you and read the questions and tell you the answers. Watching the busloads of people who could neither read or speak English and having to wait in line for hours, Tennessee was the target state for illegals to get a license.

Then, in 2004, Drivers Certificates were given for the basic purpose of allowing ILLEGAL ALIENS to drive under the excuse of they need to know the rules of the road. Again, they cannot read the signs in English.

Well, a day of reckoning is coming. Drivers Certificates are expiring and the 287 (g) is looming on the horizon. The ILLEGAL ALIEN lobby is moaning.

Certificate Repeal Will Endanger Safety of All Tennessee Drivers

This is what the citizens of Tennessee are up against in the fight to protect our state from the invasion of illegal aliens into our cities, our neighborhoods, our businesses, our schools, our healthcare facilities, our jails etc. The pro open borders crowd operating in Nashville and having the ear of Governor Bredesen, Jimmy Naifeh, Gerald Nicely, Phillip Pinion, and others is fighting against American citizens who want their state and cities protected against illegal aliens and their bidders who are aiding and abetting illegal aliens.

The 2006 Legislative Season included many bills to protect Tennesseans and this TIRRC group stealthily attacked and defeated legislation to rid Tennessee of these invaders. The TIRRC is at it again and they need to be exposed for their desire to destroy our state through their pro amnesty, open borders agenda. Look around the website. Make the calls today and remind our representatives they are voted in and work for the American citizen, not the illegal alien and those that profit from them.

Thanks to illegal immigration Tennessee is now swarming with drugs, drug smugglers, gangs like MS 13, rapes, sex trafficking, the para military group Zetas, millions in healthcare costs, millions in ESL language assistance, millions in jail and incarceration costs, overcrowded schools, neighborhoods where English is not spoken or barely spoken, homes and apartments with 15-20 inhabitants, etc.
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The Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition expresses its disappointment with legislative efforts to eliminate the Certificate for Driving (CFD) program (SB 1968/HB 1827), leaving tens of thousands of immigrants drivers without access to driving safety documents or accident insurance. Since the program was suspended last February, immigrant leaders have been in communication with the Governor’s office, determined to work together to fix any problems with the certificate program and reinstate it as soon as possible.
• Between July 2004 and February 2006, over 60,000 Tennessee drivers demonstrated the ability to drive safely, and qualified for driving certificates. These Tennessee drivers will now be permanently denied access to driving safety documents and accident insurance.
• According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, “an unlicensed driver is 4.9 times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than a driver with a valid license” (AAA Foundation). Tennessee traffic deaths increased 4.3% in 2006 (Tennessean), the same time period that the driving certificate program was suspended for undocumented immigrants.
• Uninsured drivers cause 14.5% of all accidents and more than $4.1 billion in insurance losses per year (Insurance Journal).
• Undocumented workers will continue to drive our economy, and studies show that states benefit greatly. A recent report issued by the Texas Comptroller concluded that absence of the undocumented workers in 2005 would have resulted in a loss of $17.7 billion to the gross state product. In addition, “undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received.”
• Instead of keeping our communities safe, law enforcement and court officials will continue to spend their resources apprehending and processing hardworking immigrants for the simple offense of driving to work, to English classes, or their children to school.
The Certificate for Driving program was suspended in February of 2006 in response to reports that out-of-state residents were visiting Tennessee to obtain these driving safety documents. We support the TN Department of Safety’s efforts to ensure that only Tennessee residents have access to the Certificate for Driving Program. However, elimination of the program altogether will have a detrimental effect on public safety for all Tennessee drivers.

TALKING POINTS BY THE OPPOSITION

Tennessee Certificate for Driving (CFD) Working Group
Recommendation: Fix the Program, Don’t Eliminate It

Objectives:
1) To ensure that all drivers on Tennessee roads understand the rules of safety, and have access to a driving safety document;
2) To ensure that all drivers on Tennessee roads have access to automobile insurance;
3) To ensure that all drivers on Tennessee roads are entered into a state database, creating a comprehensive record of all interactions with law enforcement; and
4) To streamline the licensing process for all TN driving safety documents.

Challenges with CFD program, and its current suspension
1) Many immigrants, currently working and contributing to the Tennessee economy, cannot drive to work.
2) Many immigrant drivers cannot obtain automobile insurance.
3) Many immigrant parents cannot drive their children to school.
4) Immigrants temporarily out of status cannot drive to the Memphis immigration office.
5) TN law enforcement has no effective way to enter immigrant residents into a law enforcement database.
6) TN state residency documents are challenging to verify, especially for applicants with foreign identification documents.
7) The federal government is attempting to use state-issued safety documents to burden state governments with the enforcement of a broken federal immigration system.
8) The public has the false impression that undocumented immigrants are drawn to Tennessee by the CFD program.

Recommendations for the TN Department of Safety
1) Reinstate the CFD program to ensure that all Tennessee drivers know the rules of safety and have access to automobile insurance.
2) Call the CFD what it really is—a “driving safety certificate”—in program materials. Road safety is the primary reason states issue and regulate driver’s licenses.
3) Create a two-step process for all applicants for a driving safety certificate. Step 1: Applicant submits all required paperwork to the Department of Safety and undergoes required testing. The Department of Safety issues provisional paperwork that the applicant can use to obtain automobile insurance. (Department of Safety personnel have the opportunity to verify identity and residency documents, as deemed appropriate.) Step 2: Applicant returns with proof of insurance, and receives driving safety certificate.
4) Limit the number of driver’s license stations that will issue driving safety certificates, to ensure that personnel receive adequate training on all document requirements.
5) Increase application fees for driving safety certificates to cover any additional administrative costs.
6) Add a statement on driving safety certificates that indicates they are “valid in TN only.”

Recommendations for immigrant community organizations and advocates
1) Conduct public outreach efforts to raise awareness of new program features, and emphasize the necessity of obtaining legal driving documents and insurance.
2) Coordinate cultural awareness seminars for drivers who may be unfamiliar with driving norms in this country, and work with insurance companies to reduce insurance rates for those who have successfully completed seminars.

Toll Road Developer Taps Inside Connections

6145485_BG3.jpgSome big companies want to make some Tennessee roads their roads to riches.

And one company is using some inside connections to the most powerful people in state government.

Because of loopholes in the state’s ethics laws, what these companies are doing is entirely legal.

But if they get their way, you could still end up paying the price.

Imagine you had to pay just to drive down a road — a road that instead of belonging to everyone — just might belong to a private company.

“After going to all these conferences, I am sold on it,” House Transportation Committee chairman Phillip Pinion, D-Union City, told his colleagues just last week.

It’s an idea that Pinion is aggressively pushing as a way to allow companies to build new roads without lawmakers having to raise gas taxes.

“This would be money that would come in from private dollars. and they would lease it and pay the state ‘X’ number of dollars per year,” Pinion told NewsChannel 5 chief investigative reporter Phil Williams.

Among those pushing for privately operated toll roads is a Capitol Hill lobbyist with close ties to both Pinion and Transportation Commissioner Gerald Nicely.

“She was the chief of staff here at TDOT,” Nicely says.

For more than three years, Velma Jones was Nicely’s top assistant.

But last March, she left state government and went to work as a lobbyist for a giant engineering firm, CTE-AECOM, reporting that she planned to lobby on “notices issued by the Tennessee Department of Transportation.”

In other words, Nicely says, “I would assume it would be state contracts and possibly a lot of other stuff.”

Stuff like tolls roads.

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English-only driver’s license tests die in legislature

bilde.jpgLegislation that would have required driver’s license tests to be given only in English and allowed state troopers to begin enforcing immigration laws were killed Tuesday in a House subcommittee.
House Transportation Chairman Phillip Pinion urged members of the Public Safety and Rural Roads Subcommittee to vote against the license testing measure.

“Let’s get rid of our redneck image and go back to saying we want people to come here,” said Pinion, D-Union City.
Rep. Tom DuBois, R-Columbia, who sponsored the bill, said he is concerned that non-English speakers won’t know how to read traffic signs that are only in English.
The measure failed on a 6-6 vote, with House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh casting the deciding vote against the bill.

“I think it was a bad bill and I’m glad we held it in committee,” said Naifeh, D-Covington. “Anytime I get the opportunity I’ll vote ‘no’ on it.”
Gov. Phil Bredesen had said he would have considered vetoing the English-only bill if it had passed the Legislature.

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Tennessee Democrats kill English-only testing bill, THP immigration measure

A Democratic-controlled state House panel killed two Republican-backed bills Tuesday that proponents say addresses illegal immigration, one of which would put driver’s license tests only in English.

The other bill that was killed would have allowed the Tennessee Highway Patrol to be trained by federal authorities to enforce immigration laws.

The Public Safety and Rural Roads Subcommittee voted against both bills, mainly along party lines with Democrats opposing and Republicans favoring.

Both measures had previously passed the Republican-controlled state Senate.

State Rep. Phillip Pinion (D-Union City), the chairman of the House Transportation Committee who voted against both bills as an Ex officio member of the subcommittee, said the English-only driver’s license bill “sends a bad message” to possible and current foreign investment in Tennessee.

“It’s a global economy now, and I just don’t want us to look like we’re redneck, saying we don’t want them,” Pinion said.

The bill to put driver’s license tests in English-only failed on a 6-6 vote after Pinion and House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh (D-Covington), another Ex officio member of the subcommittee, came in and voted against the measure.

Naifeh was forced to vote after Rep. Nathan Vaughn, a Democrat from Kingsport, voted with the Republicans. Naifeh’s vote gave the Democrats enough to keep the bill from passing the subcommittee.

Rep. Tom Dubois (R-Columbia) said the bill is a “safety concern” because drivers need to be able to read the road signs that are posted in English.

“I think the bill sends the right message that we are trying to protect the citizens of Tennessee by requiring folks, if they’re driving on our roads, to know how to read road signs adequately,” Dubois said.

Currently, the state gives driver’s license tests in four languages: English, Japanese, Korean and Spanish.

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Tennessee House advances Bredesen’s measure to stop driver certificates

Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen’s proposal to eliminate the state’s driver certificate program for non-U.S. citizens was advanced by the House Transportation Committee on Tuesday despite opposition from the committee chairman.

The measure carried by Rep. Mike Turner, D-Old Hickory, would create temporary driver’s licenses for legal residents for the duration of their visas. A suspended program that allowed non-citizens to obtain a driving certificate regardless of their immigration status would be shut down.

Transportation Chairman Phillip Pinion, D-Union City, said the driver certificates ensured that even illegal immigrants knew the rules of the road.

“My responsibility is to keep the state’s highways as safe as possible,” said Pinion. “And I feel that doing away with these certificates will make our highways more dangerous.”

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House subcommittee kills THP enforcement of immigration

A Tennessee House subcommittee Tuesday killed a bill that sought to allow the Highway Patrol to sign an agreement with the federal government to enforce immigration laws.

The House Public Safety and Rural Roads Subcommittee voted 6-to-5 to defeat the measure sponsored by Representative Dolores Gresham of Somerville. The measure had passed a full Senate vote a day earlier.
The bill sought to authorize the commissioner of the state Department of Safety to negotiate an agreement with the U-S Department of Homeland Security. Following training and certification, the troopers would be able to enforce federal immigration and customs laws while conducting their normal duties.

Illegal Alien Infants!

MAIA calls it like it is. “IAI” – Illegal Alien Infants

You can call them Illegal Alien Anchor Babies or Illegal Alien Infants, either way you spell it out you can count on another one being born to an Illegal Alien Female in the USA. Rumors which Congress of the USA have refused to set straight, currently we have Females from around the world, but most specifically from Mexico and our southern Latin countries crossing our border to “steal” the American Dream by giving birth.

Illegal Alien Females think that requirements for US citizenship are:

1 You sneak over the border.

2 You get pregnant as fast as possible, as many times as possible.

3 Use your child as your weapon of choice to “blackmail” the USA to let you stay.

4. Call every USA citizen a racist and home wrecker who wants you and your child to leave and return to your country.

If a legal woman in the USA tried to pull off this scam to get ahead of the line it’s called a “GOLD DIGGER”. Wanting something for nothing! These women make the choice to have a baby. A child is the responsiblity of the parents not a country to raise. A child being used by a mother to “steal” from the mouths of “legal children” in the USA should be charged with child abuse for attempting to benefit from their crime and profiting from additional actions while within the interior of the USA.

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fttf_promo2.jpgThere’s an old expression that if you want to get politicians to see the light, make them feel the heat. That’s just what FAIR and dozens of radio talk show hosts from around the country are planning in April.

FAIR’s annual Hold Their Feet to the Fire rally in Washington DC will be held April 23rd to the 25th.

Teaming up once again with popular San Diego talk show host Roger Hedgecock, FAIR and other advocates of true comprehensive immigration reform are gearing up for this year’s events where the stakes are even higher

Dozens of talk hosts from across the country have already made plans to attend this year’s Hold Their Feet to the Fire and will broadcast live from “Radio Row” on Capitol Hill with a unified voice against illegal alien amnesty. In conjunction with hundreds of listeners, activists, and congressional supporters, the event is designed to be a high profile, synergistic effort to pressure Congress not to pass illegal alien amnesty. This year’s event is expected to be the largest ever, with widespread media coverage.

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Docs reveal plan for Mexican trucks in U.S.

smartport.jpgDespite claims to the contrary, a planned Midwest “inland port” with a Mexican customs office will not be restricted to railroad traffic, according to internal documents obtained by WorldNetDaily.

As WND has reported, Kansas City SmartPort plans to utilize deep-sea Mexican ports such as Lazaro Cardenas to unload containers from China and the Far East as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement super-highway plan.

The plan would include the hotly contested allowance of Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, WND has reported, but Tasha Hammes of the Kansas City Area Development Council has insisted the port will be restricted to railroad traffic.

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