{"id":15263,"date":"2013-10-04T17:57:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T17:57:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-04T17:57:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T17:57:56","slug":"gov-brown-signs-undocumented-drivers-license-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/04\/gov-brown-signs-undocumented-drivers-license-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Brown signs undocumented drivers license bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I4IdxGbEBDg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><i>Law will go into effect in 2015<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Well, it took many years, and Gil Cedillo wasn&#8217;t the one to pass it, but drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants is going to happen in California.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two decades after California barred illegal immigrants from obtaining driver&#8217;s licenses, Gov. Jerry Brown Thursday signed legislation that restores the privilege, ending a policy battle that liberal Democrats had been fighting &#8212; and losing &#8212; for years. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/politics-government\/ci_24234103\/gov-jerry-brown-signs-law-allowing-illegal-immigrants\">Oakland tribune<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the end, this bill makes Californians safer. It makes all Californians who use the roads safer, as there aren&#8217;t a big group of drivers without licenses. And it makes people feel more human:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qmOLofWnZHU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I4IdxGbEBDg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><i>Law will go into effect in 2015<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Well, it took many years, and Gil Cedillo wasn&#8217;t the one to pass it, but drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants is going to happen in California.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two decades after California barred illegal immigrants from obtaining driver&#8217;s licenses, Gov. Jerry Brown Thursday signed legislation that restores the privilege, ending a policy battle that liberal Democrats had been fighting &#8212; and losing &#8212; for years. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/politics-government\/ci_24234103\/gov-jerry-brown-signs-law-allowing-illegal-immigrants\">Oakland tribune<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the end, this bill makes Californians safer. It makes all Californians who use the roads safer, as there aren&#8217;t a big group of drivers without licenses. And it makes people feel more human:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qmOLofWnZHU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/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":[11089],"class_list":["post-15263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-204","tag-11089"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3Yb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263","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=15263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}