O.K. Scott, maybe you can give me a "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" answer for this scenario. The Minnesota legislature decides that you cannot get a Minnesota Driver's License if you are an immigrant unless the green card or visa number is on it. Was their rationale that this would stop all undocumented immigrants from driving reserving that right for only good American born or registered law abiding citizens? Remember, if you can't get a license, you also can't get insurance. So now citizens are faced with the fallout of this shortsited decision. We are faced with unlicensed, uninsured undocumented residents driving the streets of this city. (Did anyone honestly think not being able to get a license would prevent them from trying to drive?) Two weeks ago an undocumented inebriated person with no license and no insurance totaled my parked car, smashed two in front of mine and then proceeded to hit an old woman head on 4 blocks away as she drove around Lake Calhoun. Who paid? You did, I did and everyone on this list and beyond did. Please suggest to me how we could look out for myself here? Your suggestion that we should just look out for ourselves is like the girl who was raped being blamed because she wore provocative clothing or the person that gets their house robbed being at fault because they live in a "bad" neighborhood. If we all have to stop and proceed slowly through a green light to ensure no one will ever run a red light and hit us, this city will be nothing but a big giant grid lock filled with cars from communities that are less socialist. Barb Lickness Whittier
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