{"id":1620158,"date":"2022-08-23T10:48:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T14:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620158"},"modified":"2022-08-23T10:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T14:48:44","slug":"its-official-voters-will-decide-fate-of-licenses-for-illegals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-official-voters-will-decide-fate-of-licenses-for-illegals\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Official:\u00a0Voters Will Decide Fate of Licenses For Illegals"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-official-voters-will-decide-fate-of-licenses-for-illegals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620158&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A group of citizens opposed to a new state law that puts driver\u2019s licenses in the hands of people living illegally in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-massachusetts\">Massachusetts<\/a> has collected enough signatures to potentially overturn the measure.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Lyons, chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, confirmed on Aug. 22 that of the 75,000 signatures the group collected, 50,617 of them have been certified by the Massachusetts Secretary of the State\u2014putting them well over the 40,000 signatures required to put the new Democrat-driven law to a ballot vote in November.<\/p>\n<p>That means voters, not lawmakers, will decide if illegal immigrants will be given driver\u2019s licenses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite a radical effort with a do-whatever-it-takes mentality to stand in the way of this democratic process, the people of Massachusetts have stood up and said enough is enough,\u201d Lyons told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>The group, which began collecting signatures at the end of June, also beat their deadline of Aug. 24\u00a0 to collect the needed number of signatures from Bay Staters.<\/p>\n<p>They plan to hold a press conference that day on the steps of the state capital to officially announce their accomplishment, one especially underscored by the New England state\u2019s rank as the most liberal state in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the signature collectors reportedly withstood violent attacks, including one volunteer who said he was punched in the face by a man who was yelling at him in a foreign language outside a Walmart in Waltham.<\/p>\n<p>In outlining the Aug. 20 incident in a sworn statement, Paul Reggio said the man also spat in his face.<\/p>\n<p>When police arrived it was Reggio, not the man who assaulted him, who was accosted by police, according to his statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two officers continued yelling that I need to leave or be arrested in a loud tone of voice,\u201d stated Reggio who was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of citizens opposed to a new state law that puts driver\u2019s licenses in the hands of people living illegally in Massachusetts has collected enough signatures to potentially overturn the measure. Jim Lyons, chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, confirmed on Aug. 22 that of the 75,000 signatures the group collected, 50,617 of them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}