Law will go into effect in 2015

by Brian Leubitz

Well, it took many years, and Gil Cedillo wasn’t the one to pass it, but drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants is going to happen in California.

Two decades after California barred illegal immigrants from obtaining driver’s licenses, Gov. Jerry Brown Thursday signed legislation that restores the privilege, ending a policy battle that liberal Democrats had been fighting — and losing — for years. (Oakland tribune)

In the end, this bill makes Californians safer. It makes all Californians who use the roads safer, as there aren’t a big group of drivers without licenses. And it makes people feel more human: