Oakland's ID cards for illegal workers (license, born, illegal aliens, laws)

[All American NYC]

Starting next year, the city will begin issuing municipal identification cards to help residents without legal immigration status. Such cards are critical for tasks that range from the urgent, like an interaction with police, to the everyday, like cashing a check....Other cities have established municipal identification cards, including San Francisco, New Haven, Conn., and Washington, D.C. Los Angeles and Richmond have cards in the works....The main argument for the cards is that they will help fight crime.
"People are afraid to be witnesses or provide information," said De La Fuente. "It's a waste of time for police to spend time and resources detaining or arresting people because they don't have any identification."

Stop crime?
Waste of time or police to spend time and resources detaining or arresting people because they don't have any identification."????

So its more of a convenience to arrest law abiding citizens than illegal aliens to stomp & dance around our law?

Give me a break. These criminals don't belong here.

[Oldglory]

Originally Posted by All American NYC

Stop crime?
Waste of time or police to spend time and resources detaining or arresting people because they don't have any identification."????

So its more of a convenience to arrest law abiding citizens than illegal aliens to stomp & dance around our law?

Give me a break. These criminals don't belong here.

Gee, did they get the feds approval for this? I mean afterall illegal immigration is supposed to only be a federal matter, right?

[All American NYC]

Originally Posted by Oldglory

Gee, did they get the feds approval for this? I mean afterall illegal immigration is supposed to only be a federal matter, right?

Since when our law enforcement abandons laws & says arresting people is a waste of time.

[BigDGeek]

Outrageous. I'm sick of criminal border jumpers taking priority over the concerns of law-abiding Americans.

[sweet~d]

Hmm hopefully this info get's out and Oakland has a huge influx of illegal aliens.

[CityGuy88]

As someone born and raised in Oakland, I'd say the city has more pressing issues than trying to establish these ID cards. We're still amongst the "most dangerous" cities in the state (if not nation), we're still having unthinkably high homicide rates, we still have underfed, under-resourced children here, and we still hold the honor of having the worst school district in the state. If Oakland is in no shape to help its American citizens, I'm afraid its arms are too short to extend a hand to non-citizens.

[Packard fan]

Originally Posted by Oldglory

Gee, did they get the feds approval for this? I mean afterall illegal immigration is supposed to only be a federal matter, right?

Agreed.

[All American NYC]

Originally Posted by Packard fan

Agreed.

Its should be illegal to even issue a legal document to an illegal.

[Lost Leaf]

I bet they won't bother carry theses cards with them while driving a car. They already have the benefit of giving an officer a bogus name and address when be issued a citation for driving without a license. That's what happened to me when I was hit by an illegal. While writing him the citation ( after he plowed into me ), the cop didn't even get the guys home address. I know this because I obtained a copy of the report. So how are you going mail someone a citation if you DON"T GET THEIR ADDRESS!

These illegals know perfectly how to scam the system. It's a sham how if any obvious US citizen were to try and pull the same shenanigans my guess is they would be hauled to jail and fingerprinted. It's as if we have two different standards for laws, one's for illegals and ones for citizens.

So they'll use these cards when it benefits them and leave them at home when they decide to get behind the wheel.