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Thread #129030   Message #2900960
Posted By: Genie
05-May-10 - 08:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Arizona law on detaining illegal aliens
Subject: RE: Immigrants: Arizona's new ID law
That didn't work for the truck driver we talked about recently.

And are you sure a driver license suffices? Pretty sure Brewer disenfranchised a lot of Hispanic Americans not long ago who probably did have driver licenses and other kinds of ID.

Besides, some people don't have driver licences either - and how much does it cost to get an official state ID?    If you're one of those people born in the US but not in a hospital, or if your birth certificate has been lost or destroyed (e.g., in a fire), and you don't drive, what do you show the state to get an official ID?

Some of these requirements may be reasonable for future residents but not for people who have been citizens since the days when most people were not required to have IDs except for driving.    Maybe people like that should be grandfathered in?