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A Drivers License gives you a License to DriveMore than half of California drivers' licenses went to undocumented immigrants, NumbersUSA says
California is home to more undocumented immigrants than any other state, over 3 million, so any policy shift it makes is bound to catch attention.
NumbersUSA, a group that favors reduced immigration, noticed a trend with driver’s licenses in the Golden State and posted a meme with this message on its Facebook page.
"More than half of all drivers' licenses issued in California this year have gone to illegal aliens," the meme says.
The group is on solid ground with its numbers, although it omits why this has happened.
According to the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles, about 397,000 undocumented immigrants received a driver’s license since January.
"This figure represents more than half of the total 759,000 original driver licenses that have distributed during the first half of 2015," the department said in a press release.
Behind these numbers is a 2013 law called the Safe and Responsible Driver Act. The measure reversed a 20-year-old law that blocked people without legal status from applying for a license. A large coalition of immigrant advocacy organizations argued that in the state that epitomizes American car culture, that ban made it difficult for people to get to work, drive their kids to school and run simple errands. The result, the advocates argued, was thousands of people on the road without licenses and without any way to make sure they knew how to drive.
Reminder: You May Need a Passport to Fly Now If You Live in These States
Want to fly the friendly skies...........Well your California license will not be good enough soon........a passport or a Real I.D. will be needed soon.......so sorry
It does not declare citizenship. Legal immigrants have always been allowed drivers licenses