If you live in California, please contact your state Senators and tell them you oppose driver's licenses for illegal aliens. State Sen. Gil Cedillo's SB 60 would give illegal aliens a special form of California driver's licenses, and it apparently might be voted on this week. Note that yesterday he changed that bill from urgency status to regular. That means it can pass with a simple majority rather than the 2/3 majority urgency bills require.

Information on SB 60 is here.

You can look up your senator here.

"Cedillo pushes new driver's license law for aliens" describes the bill.

"Deadline Looms for Most Bills to Pass First House" describes how this week might be make it or break it time for Cedillo's bill.

And, a month ago I posted "Gil Cedillo's latest trick", which described SB 591. That bill would have given illegal aliens - and only illegal aliens - no impound time when they were caught driving without a license. Thankfully, that appears to have been sidelined. However, SB 60 - which will just give driver's licenses to illegal aliens outright - is still going strong. Please contact your Senators today.

UPDATE 6/02/05 3pm Pacific: SB 60 passed the Senate and now heads to the Assembly. Details in "Senate passes bill extending licenses to illegal immigrants".

UPDATE 2 6/04/05. State Sen. Tom McClintock offers "SB60: The Intent is to Adopt California Policy That Ignores U.S. Immigration Laws":

[Defines what the REAL ID Act does and doesn't say, and likewise for CA law...]

...The purpose of this measure and its predecessors is to make a very strong statement that it is the official policy of this state to ignore our nation’s immigration laws.

Those laws require a foreign national illegally in the United States to be deported. There is nothing radical or unusual about this. Every other nation in the world has immigration laws. The difference is that every other nation in the world enforces them.

By extending official state documents to illegal aliens, we are accommodating them in their violation of federal immigration law. We are adopting an official policy that this state will simply turn a blind eye to violations of those laws.

If it comes to that, we might as well repeal our immigration laws as meaningless vestiges of bygone days when this nation actually valued its sovereignty and independence.