Illegal immigrants are upset about Utah bill

Illegal immigrants, and their leftist allies, are complaining again:

Immigrant rights activists are angry about a bill requiring undocumented workers to hand over their driver licenses for driving "privilege" cards. One even compared the legislation to the marking of Jews during the Holocaust.

Ever notice how leftists love to compare everything that they don't like to the Holocaust? Here is their latest excuse for being angry:

The card, according to the bill passed Wednesday by the Legislature, could not be used as identification to board a plane, open a bank account or obtain a driver's license in another state. It would have to be renewed annually and would be a different color than Utah's regular blue driver's license and be printed with the words "FOR DRIVING PRIVILEGES ONLY - NOT VALID FOR IDENTIFICATION."

Hundreds of activists and immigrants quietly demonstrated at the Capitol while legislators debated and passed the proposal. Gov. Jon Huntsman is expected to sign the bill, which was modeled after legislation passed in Tennessee last year.

Leo Bravo, of the Hispanic Center of Cache Valley in northern Utah, argues that the measure singles out undocumented workers because they are foreigners.

No, it singles out "undocumented workers" because they are in the country illegally. Here is why the bill is necessary:

But Republican Sen. Curtis Bramble, the bill's sponsor, told House Republicans on Tuesday the measure closes a "portal" for illegal immigrants to acquire documents and the trappings of citizenship. It "solves all those problems" of homeland security, he said.

Bravo said he planned to ask the hundreds of immigrant workers who seek his counsel to reconsider their support for Huntsman if he signs the bill.

It sounds like Bravo is threatening to tell illegal immigrants not to vote for Huntsman. Now illegal immigrants are not allowed to vote in the first place but, of course, they are also not supposed to be living in the United State either so I guess they are not going to allow a little thing like the law stop them from doing whatever they feel like. Believe it or not, Bravo gets even more ridiculous:

"I thought he would be good for the community," said Bravo, who supported Huntsman for office. "You remember the time of the Jews and Nazis? They were marked. I hope he doesn't betray me."

That's right. Killing six million Jews in concentration camps is the same as stopping a bunch of illegal immigrants from getting ID's.

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