Above,

in the Orange County DMV.

Here in California, the illegal aliens are snapping up their mini-amnesty driver’s licenses like hotcakes. Apparently the government suits had feared that the skittish Mexicans et al would be too fearful to come pick up their highly desired DLs, but not to worry: they mobbed the DMVs.

And why wouldn’t they line up? It’s not like anyone gets deported during Obama’s latter days. And the foreign lawbreakers don’t even pay for the added costs of providing the goodies — an estimated $141 million in processing costs over three years which the California taxpayers subsidize.

The Democrats who run the place let taxpayers know who rates special treatment in this state — and it certainly isn’t the law-abiding people who pay the bills.

“There are now 400,000 more signals to people all over the world that working illegally in California is encouraged by the government itself,” Roy Beck of NumbersUSA observed about the roaring license distribution.

And it’s not like the state is producing spare jobs for millions of newbie foreigners. The state unemployment rate as of June was 6.3 percent, one whole percentage point worse that the national rate of 5.3.

With all its natural blessings, California should be booming. But it’s run by Democrats.