Heated Exchange Ignites Over State Bill Invalidating Driver’s License for Illegal Immigrants

Immigration advocates also demand people stop using the term ‘illegal aliens.’ Lawmaker responded that it is a legal term.
Heated Exchange Ignites Over State Bill Invalidating Driver’s License for Illegal Immigrants
Suspected Mexican cartel members drive SUV's containing dozens of illegal immigrants to an open gap in the U.S. border wall near Jacomba, Calif., on Dec 6, 2023. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
Alice Giordano
Alice Giordano
Freelance reporter
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A recent hearing on a proposed New Hampshire bill to invalidate out-of-state driver’s licenses issued to illegal immigrants turned briefly hostile when an El Salvadoran-born state representative called the bill stupid and shamed lawmakers for referring to illegal immigrants as illegal aliens.

An immigrant advocate fueled the fire when she demanded that lawmakers stop using the term illegal aliens because it was offensive.

Alice Giordano
Alice Giordano
Freelance reporter
Alice Giordano is a freelance reporter for The Epoch Times. She is a former news correspondent for The Boston Globe, Associated Press, and the New England bureau of The New York Times.
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