More than half of the driver’s licenses California has issued in 2015 have gone to residents living in the country illegally, reflecting the popularity of a new law extending licenses to people regardless of residency status.
A new California law offering licenses to undocumented immigrants has proven enormously popular. Nearly half a million people applied for licenses between the start of 2015 and early April, exceeding the California Department of Motor Vehicles’ expectations of 1.4 million applications over three years.
That number ballooned to 687,000 applications as of June, and immigrants in California illegally have outpaced other recipients. Of the 759,000 total licenses the DMV has issued, 397,000 – or 52 percent – have gone to the undocumented.
via Over half of new California driver’s licenses go to undocumented immigrants – The Sacramento Bee.
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