News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Enhanced license gets push

Texas attorney general backs document with feds' approval

By Brandi Grissom / Austin Bureau
Article Launched: 01/23/2008 12:00:00 AM MST

Texas can create enhanced driver's licenses for use at the border with Mexico as long as the documents conform to federal standards, state Attorney General Greg Abbott said in a ruling issued Tuesday.

But that doesn't mean El Paso border crossers will get back into the U.S. with a simple swipe of their license soon.

Gov. Rick Perry's spokeswoman said the opinion answered just one of many questions he has about the program.

"We need to be responsible for the program that we implement to ensure we're not, down the line, wasting taxpayers' money," spokes woman Krista Piferrer said.

Legislators last year approved a pilot program to create drivers' licenses that would store citizenship information so that citizens could quickly cross back into the United States from Mexico.

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