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When one thinks of Nebraska, images of rolling cornfields, sprawling livestock, and football filled weekends generally comes to mind.\u00a0 Nowadays, you can add one more item to that list: illegal aliens.<\/p>\nWhen one thinks of Nebraska, images of rolling cornfields, sprawling livestock, and football filled weekends generally comes to mind.\u00a0 Nowadays, you can add one more item to that list: illegal aliens.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s right.\u00a0 Thanks to Nebraska\u2019s legislature, this state in the middle of America\u2019s heartland is slowly becoming a safe haven for illegal aliens, particularly those granted deferred action via President Obama\u2019s executive amnesty.<\/p>\n
The latest effort by the Nebraska legislature to accommodate illegal aliens is to dole out professional licenses.\u00a0 Specifically, the legislature is currently reviewing a proposal, LB 947, which would grant professional and commercial licenses to beneficiaries of President Obama\u2019s unlawful Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.\u00a0 Last year, the state legislature granted driver\u2019s licenses to DACA recipients, and thanks to a prior legislature, illegal aliens qualify for in-state tuition.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, not everyone in Nebraska\u2019s government is drinking the amnesty lobby\u2019s Kool-Aid. \u00a0Governor Pete Ricketts is opposing LB 947.\u00a0 In a statement<\/a> released last week, Governor Ricketts made the critical point that granting professional and commercial licenses to DACA recipients is poor public policy because it grants benefits to individuals who are only eligible to work due to executive fiat.\u00a0 \u201c[T]his legislation would extend benefits to a group of people who have immigrated illegally and have been deemed temporarily to be lawfully present in our country by the Obama administration,\u201d he argued.\u00a0 \u201cIt is important to understand that President Obama unilaterally granted this status through executive order and it is only temporary.\u201d<\/p>\n Governor Ricketts is right.\u00a0 DACA is a temporary fiction of President Obama\u2019s own making.\u00a0 Granting benefits to DACA recipients only serves to legitimize their presence in the United States and make it more difficult down the road to assert any enforcement action against this subset of illegal aliens.\u00a0 This is of course part of the Obama administration and amnesty lobby\u2019s plan to further engrain illegal aliens into society, such that when individuals think of DACA\u2019s, they don\u2019t think of illegal aliens who Congress never authorized to be here, they think of teachers, physicians, and lawyers.<\/p>\n Governor Ricketts is encouraging Nebraskans to contact their state senators to ask them to oppose the bill. \u00a0The bill already passed its first round of voting in a 27-7 vote by the state\u2019s unicameral legislature. If legislators advance the bill through two more rounds of voting, it would need 30 votes to override a veto, which the legislature has already proven it can achieve when it overrode<\/a> Governor Ricketts\u2019 veto last year of the driver\u2019s license bill.<\/p>\n Now is the time for Nebraskans\u2019 to speak up, and for the rest of us to take notice.\u00a0 After all, if it can happen in America\u2019s heartland, it can happen anywhere.\u00a0 Is your state next?