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

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. “Please put a human face and stop referring to us as aliens,” Eva Castillo, Director of the N.H. Alliance for Immigrants and Refugees and a translator for the Latin America Center, demanded during her testimony before the House Transportation Committee....