News Analysis: Lake County Sheriff Not Seeking Popular Vote on Undocumented Immigrant Issue

Sheriff Mark Curran, who supports bill requiring all Illinois motorists be licensed and insured, explains he feels it's the right thing to do.

Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran is use to getting hate mail. His unorthodox approach and views, like spending a week in the county jail to bring attention to conditions, have garnered him plenty of hate mail. But Curran doesn’t care, he’s just trying to do the right thing, he said. And so, he’s backing a state bill that may not be wildly popular but a law that Curran feels would make roads safer. He has joined with the Highway Safety Coalition to lobby for a bill requiring all Illinois motorists be licensed and insured, including undocumented immigrants. One reason he wants to see the General Assembly pass a bill sponsored by Illinois Senate President John Cullerton and House Rep. Edward Acevedo, is there are 250,000 undocumented …

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