New York Governor Eliot Spitzer finally raised the white flag todayon his controversial plan to allow undocumented aliens to get adriver's license, which he had argued would not only have made theroads safer, but have lowered insurance costs as well. The kneejerk hostility against immigration in general overwhelmed anyintelligent discussion of his claim that there would be feweruninsured drivers–a debatable point about which insurers weresilent.
Newsday ran an article in its Oct. 23 edition (click here for the full story), which concluded that in two statesthat have made drivers' licenses more readily available toundocumented immigrants recently, “the numbers of uninsured drivershave dropped sharply, but the results are mixed when it comes tosafer roadways.”
Newsday reported a decline in fatal accident rates in Utah and adrop in uninsured motorists in both Utah and New Mexico–which bothrecently made Social Security numbers optional when applying for adriver's license.
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