{"id":24709,"date":"2015-01-04T14:18:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T19:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24709"},"modified":"2015-01-04T14:18:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T19:18:47","slug":"unintended-consequences-can-be-brutal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24709","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Consequences Can Be Brutal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the recent news stories has been the granting of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Driver's license\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Driver%27s_license\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">driver&#8217;s licenses<\/a> to illegal immigrants in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"California\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.0,-120.0&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=37.0,-120.0 (California)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">California<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/01\/03\/ca-illegal-immigrant-at-dmv-nobodys-passing-written-test\/\" target=\"_blank\">Breitbart.com<\/a> posted a story yesterday reporting how that is going.<\/p>\n<p>A few snippets from the story:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Many illegal immigrants at a Northern <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"California Department of Motor Vehicles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dmv.ca.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">California DMV<\/a> reportedly were failing\u00a0the written exam when applying for driver\u2019s licenses on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;At a DMV in south Sacramento, Veronica Oropeza, a 28-year-old <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Illegal immigration\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illegal_immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">illegal immigrant<\/a> who has reportedly been driving without a license for six years, reportedly failed her written exam twice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cNobody\u2019s passing,\u201d she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article5360535.html#storylink=cpy\">told<\/a> the <em><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Sacramento Bee\" href=\"http:\/\/sacbee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Sacramento Bee<\/a><\/em> in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Spanish language\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spanish_language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Spanish<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;When <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Nevada\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=39.0,-117.0&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=39.0,-117.0 (Nevada)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Nevada<\/a> allowed illegal immigrants to apply for licenses last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2014\/12\/11\/CA-Working-with-Mexican-Consulate-to-Encourage-Illegals-to-Purchase-State-Sponsored-Low-Cost-Auto-Insurance\">71% of illegal immigrants in the state<\/a> reportedly failed the written exam in the first three days. Wanting to avoid what happened in Nevada, immigrant groups like the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coalition_for_Humane_Immigrant_Rights_of_Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles<\/a> (CHIRLA) <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2014\/12\/11\/CA-Working-with-Mexican-Consulate-to-Encourage-Illegals-to-Purchase-State-Sponsored-Low-Cost-Auto-Insurance\">had provided free test prep classes to illegal immigrants<\/a> in the final months of 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Oropeza had \u201calready spent more than three hours at the DMV,\u201d and \u201cshe couldn\u2019t stay to take the exam a third time, she said, because she had to get to work.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe the American education system is better than we thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the recent news stories has been the granting of driver&#8217;s licenses to illegal immigrants in California. Breitbart.com posted a story yesterday reporting how that is going. 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