My wife works at the Minnesota state legislature, and the other day she was describing the scene as the Minnesota State Senate passed a bill that would grant illegal immigrants the right to get driver’s licenses.

The concept itself has pros and cons–mainly having to do with ensuring that illegal immigrants be forced to carry insurance if and when they are on the road. I dislike the idea itself but understand how others might make a policy argument for it.

What I cannot understand is the fact that illegal immigrants have been testifying before our legislature, threatening to vote legislators out of office (uh…are they voting illegally? I am assured that doesn’t happen!), and gathering in huge protests and celebrations at the state capitol.

Where, exactly, is ICE? It seems to me that nothing would be more convenient for an immigration enforcement agency to do its job than a large gathering of illegal immigrants, and in particular, a lawbreaker testifying before the legislature that they are breaking the law.

St Paul, our capitol, is a sanctuary city, but that only means that the city will not cooperate with ICE to detain illegal aliens. It does not and constitutionally cannot include preventing federal law enforcement from doing their jobs.

80,000 Minnesotans get to rest easier tonight knowing our state recognizes their place in our collective community.

It’s a great day to be a Minnesotan. https://t.co/cl4nvvkCkL

— Tina Smith (@TinaSmithMN) February 24, 2023

I will be writing a post in the near future about how awful the particular bill is–it is an open invitation to identity theft–but what is so striking to me is how brazen lawbreakers are and how supportive our elected officials are in helping them be so.

On TV you still see law enforcement officials threatening illegal aliens with deportation if they don’t cooperate, which is a joke. In this day and age it is almost impossible for anybody to enforce the laws regarding immigration, and the Left is working hard to make all law enforcement as difficult as possible.

It is striking how far our society has gone in abandoning the most basic law enforcement for almost any crime Criminals can show up in the state capitol, describe in great detail their crimes, and get applauded and even rewarded for doing so.

It is stunning and brave, except it is really neither. It is the most normal thing in the world, apparently.

On the same day that the Minnesota State Senate passed their ridiculous bill to provide driver’s licenses to illegal aliens they confirmed their embrace of criminality by passing a bill allowing felons to vote. Both laws simply confirm that the Left-dominated Minnesota Legislature has decided that criminals–actually, only certain criminals–are one of their key consituencies.

MN Senate passes bills to restore felon voting rights, give licenses to illegal immigrants  👈🏾 Alpha News https://t.co/0SAxSGzCjP

— CyberChick (@warriors_mom) February 22, 2023

Little discussed but worthy of note: with motor-voter, illegal aliens registering to vote will become a thing. We are assured that this will not happen, of course, but why exactly would anybody believe that? The fear of breaking the law certainly will not prevent it, as demonstrated by the fact that criminals are already showing up at the capitol to demand rights they have no legal claim to.

Democrats–including my own state senator, wouldn’t even allow an exception to prevent the very worst criminals from regaining their right to vote during probation. There is no limit to their desire to empower the most destructive members of society to have full voting rights in our society.

The Senate debated a bill today to restore felons' voting rights once they leave prison. They rejected an amendment to prohibit child rapists from voting until they complete probation.

"Survivors also support restore the vote," Sen. Champion claimed. pic.twitter.com/bY26lAz9TH

— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) February 21, 2023

Are Democrats simply adding 80,000 illegal voters to the rolls to solidify their hold on power? And uncounted felons to bolster the Left’s dominance in our state? A cynic might think so.

The Minnesota Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would allow illegal immigrants the ability to obtain a U.S. driver’s license without requiring proof they are in the country lawfully.

The “Driver’s License for All” legislation states that a person applying for a driver’s license or state ID “is not required to demonstrate United States citizenship or lawful presence in the United States,” according to the most current version of the text.

Republicans in the Minnesota state Senate sought to amend the bill’s language on Tuesday to include “Not for Flying” or “Not for Voting” over concerns that an illegal immigrant might have the ability to vote in U.S. elections.

“What in your bill prevents that terrorist from coming to Minnesota, getting a driver’s license and getting on an airline and committing a terrorist act?” Minnesota state Sen. Glenn Gruenhagen said in response to the bill, according to KWLM.

The answer: nothing. But illegal aliens are simply refugee migrants anyway, so of course that wouldn’t happen. Would it?

Why would anybody fear that people who are here having broken the law would do so again? They certainly wouldn’t vote, right?

In conjunction with HF 3, every illegal alien in Minnesota will automatically be registered to vote. https://t.co/RA3pSppzQN

— Bill Glahn (@billglahn) February 22, 2023

I wish I could claim to be shocked, but by now very little is shocking to me about the Left.