Driver’s License Restrictions Impede Immigrants’ Lives

Author: 
Paul M. Sherer
Periodical: 
New Americans, Volume 3, Issue 1
Year: 
2003
Publisher: 
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
Description: 

After 9/11, 50 restrictive proposals were introduced in several states to deter immigrants from obtaining or keeping their driver's licenses. Proposals included the prohibition of licenses for the undocumented and new conditions on acceptable documents for proving identity. The impacts on immigrants and efforts to combat the new restrictions are explored here.

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