[WardFive] Fw: PRESS RELEASE: Norton Says Mayor’s Proposal to License Undocumented Immigrants is Important for Public Safety in the City

To also protect DC government and the residents, yes, undocumented immigrants should also have insurance, and the DC government ID should also be a different color or have some difference from established drivers ID.  Why, since  immigrants who come to the US legally go through the required processes and finally receive their green cards prior to naturalization, the green cards is used to confirm their status in America.  They receive the same Drivers IDs as every citizen.  Since undocumented don't have the same status, they should have a different color card.

 

Albrette "Gigi" Ransom

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Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Norton Says Mayor's Proposal to License Undocumented Immigrants is Important for Public Safety in the City

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                    Contact: Daniel van Hoogstraten

         May 1, 2013                                                                                          o: 202-225-8050

           c: 202-225-8143

 

Norton Says Mayor's Proposal to License Undocumented Immigrants is Important for Public Safety in the City

 

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement concerning the proposal by District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray to require undocumented immigrants who drive and reside in D.C. to get a driver's license.

 

"The Mayor's proposal for driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants is one of the most important changes for public safety and for elimination of black market illegal licensing of drivers.  Our neighbors in Maryland have already approved such licenses for their undocumented residents, who otherwise would be driving without licenses not only in Maryland but almost certainly in the District of Columbia as well.  A dozen states are considering this sensible reform, perhaps stimulated by the immigration reform underway in the Congress.  Because all licensed drivers in the District have to be insured, licensing undocumented immigrants will not only protect them but also residents here and wherever our residents may drive.

 

"A car is nothing less than a necessity for many residents – to go to work, school or to obtain the necessities of life.  As documented by evidence, denying a license does nothing to keep someone who must drive from doing so.  I hope the District will soon join the states that already require licenses for all drivers."

 

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