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Florida Governor Jeb Bush endorsed a Bill to allow illegal immigrants to get driver’s licenses, saying they are in the state anyway and officials should accept that fact.
The Bill has enough safeguards that it would ensure terrorists are not getting licenses, Bush said yesterday.
‘‘We shouldn’t allow them to come into the country to begin with, but once they’re here, what do you do? Do you basically say that they’re lepers to society? That they don’t exist?’’ he asked. ‘‘A policy that ignores them is a policy of denial.’’
The issue comes up four months after California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger repealed a law that would have allowed an estimated 2 million illegal immigrant drivers apply for licenses. Opponents of the California law said it would have posed a threat to national security. —(PTI)
