Ricketts unmoved on immigrant licenses, despite rising support for bill that would change Nebraska's
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Joe Duggan
LINCOLN — Nebraska’s governor won’t reveal his veto plans if state lawmakers pass legislation granting driver’s licenses to young immigrants who came to the country illegally through no fault of their own.
But Gov. Pete Ricketts has not softened on illegal immigration despite rapidly shifting politics surrounding the driver’s license bill. In recent weeks, the state’s leading business groups have called for the bill’s passage, as has Jean Stothert, the Republican mayor of Omaha.
“As a matter of principle, I don’t believe in giving benefits to people who came here illegally,” the Republican governor said Friday in an interview with The World-Herald.
Nebraska is the only state in the nation to deny driver’s licenses to a category of young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, was started in 2012 with an executive order by the president.
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Sold off a good chuck of their Ameritrade holdings to do it.
When Ricketts ran for Senate against Ben Nelson, Ricketts was big on fracking & drilling. Ben pulled out a letter from Ricketts Sr. about not wanting fracking & drilling near his properties anywhere.
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