TN law requires proof of citizenship and proficiency in English language to obtain driver's license and license plate

[orangecrush]

Under current Tennessee Law, a person can register a vehicle without a valid driver’s license. According to the state, acceptable forms of identification include a check stub and a work ID. For proof of residency, a person can use a utility bill and bank statements.

Representative Kip Capley’s HB 1708 will now require proof of U.S. citizenship or of being a lawful resident of the United States before issuing a registration of a vehicle or a license plate.

Tennessee Representative Michele Reneau told Local 3 News that this is needed to protect Tennesseans on the roads.

“This is just an important step in tightening the noose around this illegal immigration issue,” said Reneau. “It's really important for the safety of Tennesseans to be able to make it as difficult as possible, and hopefully that discouragement by not being able to get that license will discourage them from driving.”

https://www.local3news.com/local-news/tn-law-requires-proof-of-citizenship-and-proficiency-in-english-language-to-obtain-driver-s/article_82fe2199-a396-4a89-bb94-0d33cbadb585.html

[SWBTATTReg]

1. First of all, is the illegal population in TN that bad? Really? Give us the numbers that you claim the numbers are bad

[ZDU]

5. Tennessee, the new Hate State

[TxGuitar]

2. "tightening the noose"

interesting choice of words.

[ZDU]

4. Agreed

Reneau is vile

[orangecrush]

7. Good observation

[piddyprints]

3. Proficiency in English language?

Seriously??? I live in TN and can tell you that the immigrants I know are far more proficient in English than most of the native Tennesseans I know.

It’s all pretty nutso.

[Greybnk48]

14. Are bastardized words like "ain't" and "done got" and "woop" instead of "whip" dis-qualifiers?

My family in Tennessee would be able to vote, but many others in the state would not.

[piddyprints]

15. Maybe "ain't."

Haven't heard much "woop" but that sort of thing hasn't been the topic of conversation. Also "I seen" instead of "I saw." The past tense of "drag" is "drug" here.

I talked to one man who was very proud that his daughter got into college to major in English. That surprised me since he didn't seem to have much of a grasp. Then he proudly declared that they had tried to teach him to speak properly in school, but he "wadn't havin' nun o' hit. They ain't changin' the way ah talk."

When we first moved here, we almost needed a translator to figure out what some of the locals were saying. Now we're used to it. "Meetcha mid-eenin'" means to meet sometime in the afternoon. We found that out when we arrived at 6:30pm and had missed them by hours.

[31j20b3]

6. My paternal grandmother came to the US at age 12, never spoke more than 800 words in English

This worked OK within her family, and the knot of Slavik Germans she lived around in Perry Co Illinois.

I find the whole xenophobic pogrom of demeaning non-English speakers as a sad commentary on America.

The sort of thing happening with Tennesee Drivers Licenses is NOT UNLIKE effort of the German government to wipe away Sorbian/Wendish culture southeast of Berlin.

We ARE incipient Nazis, refusing to accept our decent in social dysfunction

[Retrograde]

8. So there are no green card holders in TN

or people studying at Vanderbilt or U of T on student visas? Tennessee has no plans to attract foreign companies to the state?

And of course, all native-born Tennesseans are from birth capable of driving safely - no speeding, driving under the influence, passing on blind curves, cutting off pedestrians - it's just simple genetics

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. It's a poor headline - the text expands it with " or of being a lawful resident of the United States" (nt)

[orangecrush]

11. I agree

[orangecrush]

12. Excellent poiint

[Blue Full Moon]

10. Most residents of TN would not be able to pass.

[Luciferous]

13. I used to live there and have to agree