{"id":15221,"date":"2013-09-13T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-09-13T20:02:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T20:02:26","slug":"undocumented-immigrants-to-get-drivers-licenses-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2013\/09\/13\/undocumented-immigrants-to-get-drivers-licenses-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Undocumented Immigrants to get Drivers Licenses. Finally."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Ten years after Gov. Davis signed the bill for the first time, we may get them for real<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Asm. <a href=\"http:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB60&#038;search_keywords=\">Alejo&#8217;s AB 60<\/a> to provide drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants was presumed to be in a holding pattern for next year. However, at the last minute yesterday, the logjam cleared, and the Legislature sent the bill to the Governor.<\/p>\n<p>The governor, for his part, says that he will sign it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This bill will enable millions of people to get to work safely and legally,&#8221; Brown, a Democrat, said in an email sent to reporters shortly after midnight. &#8220;Hopefully it will send a message to Washington that immigration reform is long past due.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>California will not be the first state to have such a license, Utah has one that says &#8220;temporary visitor&#8217;s drivers license&#8221; in big letters on the front. &nbsp;California will attempt to be somewhat more discreet, but it still must be clearly labeled to comply with federal law. <\/p>\n<p>After the change was made, the bill even got a handful of Republican votes. It seems a few GOP legislators understand that the risks of inaction were higher than the risks of action. Sen. Canella (R-Ceres) even led a group of Republicans calling on the federal government to take action on immigration reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Ten years after Gov. Davis signed the bill for the first time, we may get them for real<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Asm. <a href=\"http:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB60&#038;search_keywords=\">Alejo&#8217;s AB 60<\/a> to provide drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants was presumed to be in a holding pattern for next year. However, at the last minute yesterday, the logjam cleared, and the Legislature sent the bill to the Governor.<\/p>\n<p>The governor, for his part, says that he will sign it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This bill will enable millions of people to get to work safely and legally,&#8221; Brown, a Democrat, said in an email sent to reporters shortly after midnight. &#8220;Hopefully it will send a message to Washington that immigration reform is long past due.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>California will not be the first state to have such a license, Utah has one that says &#8220;temporary visitor&#8217;s drivers license&#8221; in big letters on the front. &nbsp;California will attempt to be somewhat more discreet, but it still must be clearly labeled to comply with federal law. <\/p>\n<p>After the change was made, the bill even got a handful of Republican votes. It seems a few GOP legislators understand that the risks of inaction were higher than the risks of action. Sen. Canella (R-Ceres) even led a group of Republicans calling on the federal government to take action on immigration reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[204],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-15221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-204","tag-135"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3Xv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}