A FReeper received a reply from Jeb Bush regarding his support for illegal alien driver's licenses:

Florida Safe Driving Act

[1] Why give driver licenses to undocumented aliens? [sic, that should be "illegal aliens" -- LW]

Florida has no power over immigration and naturalization issues, but it does have a duty to protect the safety of its citizens. Allowing Florida's more than 400,000 illegal aliens to obtain a driver license under very strict conditions will increase safety on our roads and highways. It will boost compliance with Florida's auto registration and insurance laws...

[2] Why wouldn't the state just deport the aliens once they have verified their identity?

Under Federal law, no state has the power to deport anyone; it is exclusively the domain of the Federal government...

The bill creates a mechanism for Florida to work with foreign consulates to approve a stringent means by which to verify the alien's identity and ensure the consulate is not issuing a duplicate ID...

[5] How does this differ from California law?

First, California law did not exclude applicants from the list of countries maintained by the U.S. Department of State as state sponsors of terrorism. In addition, California did not require state and national criminal background checks, nor did it provide procedures in conjunction with foreign consulates to verify identity and criminal backgrounds with an applicant's home country...

I've got a better idea. Just get your brother to do his job, one major one being to enforce the immigration laws.

Florida is able to make complicated deals with foreign consulates, but they're unable to work with the federal government to enforce our immigration laws? I don't buy it.

I have the vague feeling that there's some kind of coordination here between Jeb Bush and Arnold. This consulate scheme sounds too complicated for just one state to implement it; there's probably a plan to export it to California at some point.

Hopefully someone in Florida is working on a recall petition right now.