ID Cards for Illegal Immigrants: A Good Thing?

This tells what a city ID card can do to help residents regardless of their legal status, within their community. - - Donna Poisl

by Mark Scheerer, Public News Service - NY

President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday criticized Arizona's law that makes failure to carry immigration documents a crime. But in contrast to Arizona, a growing number of cities around the country are taking a different approach: They are issuing identification cards (ID) designed to help illegal immigrants function within society. Government-issued ID is necessary to cash checks, pick up packages from mail centers or access clinics, doctor's offices, recreation centers or pools.
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