Like New Haven, San Francisco to offer ID cards
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Marcela Rojas reports:
San Francisco officials approved a plan yesterday to issue ID cards to illegal immigrants living in the Golden Gate city. In recent months, there has been a firestorm of debate nationwide over whether to offer certain privileges to undocumented persons through some sort of identification card system.
Several months ago, Brewster Mayor John Degnan invited the Guatemalan consulate to a meeting to discuss its mobile consular ID program. Guatemalans can visit the consulate offices in Manhattan to obtain these consular ID cards, or the so-called “blue cards,” but the mobile program would have made the process easier for those Guatemalans living in the village. The effort was thwarted when Save Our Southeast, a political team running for Town Board offices, sent out computerized phone calls to residents claiming that Degnan and another Southeast supervisor candidate, Lorraine Mitts, were issuing ID cards to “illegal aliens.â€? Degnan subsequently called off the meeting.
There are some who believe that granting ID cards to illegal immigrants will threaten national security and still there are those who think it will increase security and bring immigrants out of the shadows.
What do you think?
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on Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 at 12:28 pm by Leah Rae.
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As long as S.F. pays for the illegals and not the federal
Govt. do what you have to do.