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In a desperate attempt to curry favor with special interests and avoid paying his piper, Gray Davis signed a bill on September 6 that made it easy for illegal aliens to obtain California drivers licenses. The bill allows illegal aliens to use nothing more than a Mexican consulate-issued identification card known as the matricula consular to obtain a valid California license. There are an estimated 2 million illegal aliens in California who will thus be eligible for a license (which in turn opens the door to many other legal documents).
Beside the obvious concern over providing legal documents to people who broke this country's laws in order to enter it, there is the additional problem that the cards are open to fraud. The cards are not authenticated by any computerized database, and ...